Meaning Quotes

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning an...

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden me...

As it is?

Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.

... And that has remained an important mental landscape for me, a reference point. It teaches me som...

Once he gets to the fort the colonel turns to John Wayne and says, "I did see a few Indians on the w...

With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the ...

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of it...

What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or he...

The language of Friendship is not words, but meanings.

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.

One knew nothing. One lived and walked about on the earth or rode through the forests, and so many t...

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we c...

Searching means having a goal, but finding means being free, being open, having no goal ... because ...

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordin...

He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the super...

Was everyone else really as alive as she was?... If the answer was yes, then the world, the social w...

So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the ...

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

Encased in an elaborate illusion of unlimited power and progress, each of us subscribes, at least un...

More than death, one fears the utter isolation that accompanies it. We try to go through life two by...

To me, science is an expression of the human spirit, which reaches every sphere of human culture. It...

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Good Morning!" said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But G...

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, c...

The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling im...

Everybody pretends to feel and tries to describe with the taste and elegance of him who first define...

Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.

Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figur...

It is the task of radical thought, since the world is given to us in unintelligibility, to make it m...

Twins were deified, and sacrificed, in a more savage culture: hypersimilitude was equivalent to the ...

There is no more hope for meaning. And without a doubt this is a good thing: meaning is mortal. Appe...

All contents of meaning are absorbed in the only dominant form of the medium. Only the medium can ma...

Nothingness lies coiled in the heart of being - like a worm.

For many have but one resource to sustain them in their misery, and that is to think, “Circumstances...

The existentialist, on the contrary, finds it extremely embarrassing that God does not exist, for th...

Perhaps this is how it is--life flowing smoothly over memory and history, the past returning or not,...

If I were doing something that the Bible condemns, I have two choices. I can straighten up my act, o...

The significance of life is living.

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever...

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have b...

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds ...

A learned society of our day, no doubt with the loftiest of intentions, has proposed the question, “...

Why, what is it, how can flesh and blood come up with such stuff, how can flesh feel it. My lord lif...

In a way, the futile excuses many people use to cover their superstitions are demolished. They think...

You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, an...

Unless you know the code, it has no meaning.

It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longin...

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.