Quotes About Meaning

But I don't believe in reincarnation! he protested. SQUEAK. And this, Mr Pounder understood with absolute rodent clarity, meant: reincarnation believes in you .

You can die for your country or your people or your family, but for a god you should live fully and busily, every day of a long life.

A VERY ACCURATE ONE. YOU SEE, YOU ARE HAVING A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE, WHICH INESCAPABLY MEANS THAT I MUST UNDERGO A NEAR-VIMES EXPERIENCE. DON'T MIND ME. CARRY ON WITH WHATEVER YOU WERE DOING. I HAVE A BOOK.

To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes and monsters, because this turned them into stories. And humans loved stories, because once you'd turned things into stories, you could change the stories.

All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing.

Don't you want to die nobly for a just cause? I'd much rather live quietly for one.

People wanted the world to be a story, because stories had to sound right and they had to make sense. People wanted the world to make sense.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

THERE IS NO JUSTICE said Death JUST ME

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

Legitimate First watched them go as they walked away. Sergeant Colon felt he was being measured up. I've always wondered about his name, said Nobby, turning and waving. I mean...Legitimate? Can't blame a mother for being proud, Nobby, said Colon.

Once you gave a thing a name you gave it a life.

Watering down the currency of expression, causing anything to mean whatever you want it to mean, until nothing is meant and nothing is precise.

You see, it's not enough to know what the future is. You have to know what it means.

Perhaps there is something in this reflected-sound-of-underground-spirits? It was a cumbersome phrase. Rincewind tried to get his tongue around the thick syllables that were the word in Twoflower's own language. Ecolirix? he tried. Ecro-gnothics? Echo-gnomics? That would do. That sounded about right.

This is called the theory of narrative causality and it means that a story, once started, takes a shape. It picks up all the vibrations of all the other workings of that story that have ever been. This is why history keeps on repeating all the time.

Sooner or later, it's all about the soul.

We are armed with the truth. What can harm us if we are armed with the truth?' 'Well, a crossbow bolt can, e.g., go right through your eye and out the back of your head,' said Sergeant Colon.

The Egregious Professor of Grammar and Usage would have corrected this to 'she was not she', which would have caused the Professor of Logic to spit out his drink.

Being a buisance is not something you should die of.

They're inventive, I'll grant you. But what I meant was...I mean...they've done nothing to deserve it." " Deserve? They're human . What's deserve got to do with it?

Uh. . . why does your partner keep saying 'ing.' Mr Pin? ... Speech impediment.' said Pin.

William wondered why he always disliked people who said "no offense meant." Maybe it was because they found it easier to say "no offense meant" than actually to refrain from giving offense.

Twas beauty killed the beast," said the Dean, who liked to say things like that. "No it wasn't," said the Chair. "It was it splatting into the ground like that.