Meaning Quotes

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them.

That brief walk was one of those moments he knew he'd remember and look back on, one of those moment...

All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motio...

But a generation that does not aspire to seriousness, to meaning, is unworthy to walk in the shadow ...

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't te...

This is the greatest mystery of the human mind--the inductive leap. Everything falls into place, irr...

There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has bro...

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and th...

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscul...

[T]here is nothing to say about life. It has no meaning. You make meaning. If you want a meaning in ...

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it...

You really can't follow a guru. You can't ask somebody to give The Reason, but you can find one for ...

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the hum...

Self-reflection or autognosis reveals that what is given in consciousness is, first and foremost, in...

On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in its...

Life is like that, full of words that are not worth saying or that were worth saying once but not an...

Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meani...

We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we co...

And I got to thinking about the moral meaning of memory, per se. And what it means to forget, what i...

Arthur was frequently baffled by the complacency with which people went on with what they insouciant...

Love may not lead where we think or hope, but regardless of outcome it should be a call to seriousne...

Cut privet still smells of sour apples, as it did when I was sixteen; but this is a rare, lingering ...

Later on in life, you expect a bit of rest, don't you? You think you deserve it. I did, anyway. But ...

But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the a...

O, what a world of unseen visions and heard silences, this insubstantial country of the mind! What i...

Mythology was never designed to describe historically verifiable events that actually happened. It w...

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you'v...

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

Art—the meaning of the pattern of our common actions in reality. The cloth-of-gold that hides behind...

My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink and sleep, and I could not help doing thes...

At the point where he, today's Ivan Ilyich, began to emerge, all the pleasures that had seemed so re...

Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, u...

One must try to make one's life as pleasant as possible. I'm alive and it's not my fault, which mean...

When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it t...

Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a sh...

If there is no meaning in it," said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn'...

Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-...

Centuries of fighting, and for what? I say. "Today it ends. I can't live in fear any longer. I've cu...

For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules-- it hasn't been taught...

The gramophone record, the musical thought, the score, the waves of sound, all stand to one another ...

Legally speaking, the term 'public rights' is as vague and indefinite as are the terms 'public healt...

Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a gr...

To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attem...

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with wo...

When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, musi...

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning.

What should I take? Something that will not be missed. In the wood at midnight, a magic flower.

Say that we are a puff of warm breath in a very cold universe. By this kind of reckoning we are eith...

The word "preacher" comes from an old French word, predicateur, which means prophet. And what is the...

And then a memory from Avalon surfaced in her mind, something she had not thought of for a decade; o...

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression a...

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Fast rather than slow, more rather than less--this flashy "development" is linked directly to societ...

But often, in the world’s most crowded streets,But often, in the din of strife,There rises an unspea...

It's only adults who read the top layers most of the time. I think children read the internal meanin...

There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.

You can put anything into words, except your own life

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial...

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades ...

We can't stop reading. Compulsively we find ourselves reading significance into dreams (we construct...

I like the multiplicity of books, because each book is different in the mind of each reader. It's th...

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity o...

We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can...

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

There comes a moment when the image of our life parts company with the life itself, stands free, and...

The children laughing without knowing why - isn't that beautiful?

Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of...

How would I explain to him that I couldn’t make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I ...

Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessa...

It would be frightening to think that in all the cosmos, which is so harmonious, so complete and equ...

The crises of modern man are to a large extent religious ones, insofar as they are an awakening of h...

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they...

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friend...

Khuda tujhe kisi toofaan se aashna karde,Ke tere behr ki maujon men iztiraab naheenMay God grant you...

Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.

That old woman taught me my catechism!" said the young man; and there was a world of meaning in this...

The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like ...

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.

Not every illness can be overcome. But many people allow illness to disfigure their lives more than ...

Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper...

I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions...

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, esc...

What is the meaning of it all, of this...of this world?'Mystery', I heard in my thoughts, or perhaps...

With the death of my father, it wasn't just the objects of everyday life that had changed; even the ...

who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means th...

You're bigger than I remember," she said stupidly."You too," he said. "I also remember that you were...

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn

The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in soc...

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from ...

The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.

Personally, I'm not much for symbolism. I never get it. Why can't things be just as they are? I neve...

Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdraw...

nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothin...

Don't sign your namebetween worlds,surmountthe manifold of meanings,trust the tearstain,learn to liv...

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being wil...