Quotes About Meaning

decir que queremos a A más que a B no es una comparación entre dos grados de amor, sino que significa que B no es amado.

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, sketch is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

Tomas ne comprenait pas alors que les métaphores sont une chose dangereuse. On ne badine pas avec les métaphores. L'amour peut naître d'une seule métaphore.

The important thing was not what the conversation was but what it represented.

Potrebno je tako malo, tako beskrajno malo pa da se ?ovjek na?e na suprotnoj strani granice iza koje sve gubi smisao, i ljubav, i uvjerenje, i vjera, i istorija. ?itava tajna ljudskog života po?iva u tome što se odigrava u neposredoj blizini te granice, ?ak i u direktnom dodiru s njom, što je od nje udaljen ne kilometrima nego tek jedan milimetar.

But Jean-Marc was telling the truth: he did not remember. Besides, he was not even trying to search his memory. He was thinking about something else: this is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past, which, without the eternal blah-blah of memories between pals, would long ago have disappeared.

semantic river: each time the same object would give rise to a new meaning, though all former meanings would resonate (like an echo, like a parade of echoes) together with the new one. Each new experience would resound, each time enriching the the harmony.

Y le dio pena que, en una situación como aquella, en la que un hombre de verdad sería capaz de tomar inmediatamente una decisión, él dudase, privando así de su significado al momento más hermoso que había vivido jamás

?ovjek sve proživljava prvi put i bez pripreme. Kao glumac koji igra predstavu bez ikakve probe. Pa koliko onda vrijedi život ako je prva proba života ve? život sam? Život je zato uvijek sli?an skici. Samo, ni skica nije prava rije?, jer je skica uvijek nacrt za nešto, priprema za sliku. A skica koja je naš život je skica nizašto, crtež iza kojega ne slijedi slika.

The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's intense fulfilment.

Quanto mais pesado for o fardo, mais próxima da terra se encontra a nossa vida e mais real e verdadeira é. Em contrapartida, a ausência total de fardo faz com que o ser humano se torne mas leve do que o ar... (...) Que escolher, então? O peso ou a leveza?

Qué valor puede tener la vida si el primer ensayo para vivir es ya la vida misma?

Olhava para as paredes sujas do pátio e percebia que não sabia se aquilo era histeria ou amor.

each time the same object would give rise to a new meaning, though all former meanings would resonate (like an echo, like a parade of echoes) together with the new one. Each new experience would resound, each time enriching the harmony.

And he thinks he understands why she never showed him the letters: she wanted to hear the murmur of the tree by herself, without him, because he, Jean-Marc, represented the abolition of all possibilities, he was the reduction (even though it was a happy reduction) of her life to one single possibility.

qué valor puede tener la vida si el primer ensayo para vivir es la vida misma?

Mas o que vale a vida se o primeiro ensaio da vida já é a própria vida?

El mito del eterno retorno viene a decir, per negationem, que una vida que desaparece de una vez para siempre, que no retorna, es como una sombra, carece de peso, está muerta de antemano y, si ha sido horrorosa, bella, elevada, ese horror, esa elevación o esa belleza nada significan.

Todos consideramos impensable que el amor de nuestra vida pueda ser algo leve, sin peso; creemos que nuestro amor es algo que tenía que ser; que sin él nuestra vida no sería nuestra vida.

Cette tristesse signifiait: nous sommes à la dernière halte. Ce bonheur signifiait: nous sommes ensemble. La tristesse était la forme, et le bonheur le contenu. Le bonheur emplissait l'espace de la tristesse.

Tereza, s? m?nh là cái gì h?t s?c ngu xu?n. Anh ch?ng có s? m?nh gì c?. Không ai có. Và th?t nh? nhõm khi nh?n ra mình không còn n?ng n? má»™t s? m?nh nào.

Kitsch is a folding screen set up to curtain off death.

Fintantoché le persone sono giovani e la composizione musicale della loro vita è ancora alle prime battute, essi possono scriverla in comune e scambiarsi i temi [...], ma quando si incontrano in età più matura, la loro composizione musicale è più o meno completa, e ogni parola, ogni oggetto, significano qualcosa di diverso nella composizione di ciascuno.

Dramatic tension is the real curse of the novel, because it transforms everything, even the most beautiful pages, even the most surprising scenes and observations merely into steps leading to the final resolution, in which the meaning of everything that preceded is concentrated.