Meaning Quotes

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

Yet I loathe the thought of annihilating myself quite as much now as I ever did. I think with sadnes...

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in ...

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods an...

If I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned—if I am going to be drowned, why, in the nam...

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

The word is only a representation of the meaning, even at its best, writing almost always falls shor...

Words have weight.

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imaginati...

We think of ourselves as failures, rather than renounce our belief in the possibility of perfection....

When you can live forever what do you live for?

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the...

For Hood's sake,' the foreigner muttered. 'What's wrong with words?' 'With words,' said Redmask, tur...

If there is no point in the universe that we discover by the methods of science, there is a point th...

August: You know, somethings don't matter that much...like the color of a house...But lifting a pers...

but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with ...

We had the experience but missed the meaning.

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we rea...

If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course ...

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and wi...

Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional clos...

Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erratically in all directions that the...

Don't be led away to think this part of the world important and that unimportant. Every corner of th...

In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and rep...

Disease was a perverse, a dissolute form of life. And life? Life itself? Was it perhaps only an infe...

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with an...

Loving, of enemies is another dogma of feigned morality, and has besides no meaning. It is incumbent...

It has been the practice of all Christian commentators on the Bible, and of all Christian priests an...

Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

Schelling's God is the totality of Nature struggling towards consciousness, and Man is as far as the...

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no...

Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; i...

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But aft...

The Tao Te Ching is partly in prose, partly in verse; but as we define poetry now, not by rhyme and ...

We have known Hillary Clinton both professionally and personally for close to 20 years, dating back ...

I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad, or com...

My great longing is to learn to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, cha...

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, ...

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazing...

How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff?

This fiddling and drifting and not impressing oneself upon anything – this always refraining and fin...

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

We are liable to miss the best of life if we do not know how to tingle, if we do not learn to hoist ...

when man was put into the garden of eden, he was put there with the idea that he should work the lan...

Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in ...

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energet...

Base words are uttered only by the baseAnd can for such at once be understood;But noble platitudes —...

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.

What did it all mean? He thought of his own life, the high hopes with which he had entered upon it, ...

The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his l...

What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward, the novelist and illustrator, and n...

O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of citi...

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to le...

The deflation, or flattening out, of values in Modern art does not necessarily indicate an ethical n...

This capacity for living easily and familiarly at an extraordinary level of abstraction is the sourc...

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own li...

The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What po...

In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all...

History is the nothing people write about a nothing.

What else is there to do?

We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.

I am who I am.A coincidence no less unthinkablethan any other.I could have had differentancestors, a...

What is fascinating is that it is physical. You know, that's one thing about intellectuals, they've ...

Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but th...

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect u...

I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and...

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer wou...

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer wou...

The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to...

Silence can be a planrigorously executedthe blueprint to a lifeIt is a presenceit has a history a fo...

A poem can't free us from the struggle for existence, but it can uncover desires and appetites burie...

We are living in a very complex society. It puts me in a complex frame of thinking.

When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in ot...

What a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through ...

Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangibl...

After Carol had left, as Symons threw away a pile of used tissues and rearranged the cushions on the...

Partially undermining the manufacturer's ability to assert that its work constituted a meaningful co...

I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives...

So that's it. I've told you everything I know. Think clearly and think for yourself. Learn to use la...

And it's only symbolism puts magic and meaning into anything. You of all people should know that. We...

If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own ...

Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romant...

What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I tou...

The mystical trend of our time, which shows itself particularly in the rampant growth of the so-call...

In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their m...

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The wr...

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce t...

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the i...

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

The work itself has a complete circle of meaning and counterpoint. And without your involvement as a...

London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And ...

There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a ...

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the mes...

There is, of course, always the personal satisfaction of writing down one's experiences so they may ...

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass...

We can stage our own act on the planet-build our cities on its plains, dam its rivers, plant its top...

I am no scientist. I explore the neighbourhood. An infant who has just learned to hold his head up h...

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.