Quotes About Meaning

Conceptual metaphors generally 'outlive' the specific words and expressions that involve them.

The 'death' of a metaphor is the loss of a connection between a metaphor and a specific word, not the loss of the conceptual metaphor itself. 'Dead' metaphors are words and phrases that were previously metaphoric, not conceptual metaphors that have disappeared. Conceptual metaphors generally 'outlive' the specific words and expressions that involve them.

Mixed metaphors with two source domains that don't make sense together, […] are the structures that most deserve the name 'mixed metaphors'.

On questions relating to the human condition, no single metaphor has all the answers.

The fact that metaphors can sleep and wake is both bad news and good news for speakers and writers who want to avoid mixed metaphors. The bad news is that when a metaphoric word or phrase is sleeping for us, we probably won't notice if we use the word or phrase in ways that are inconsistent with its source-domain meaning.

Because whether I live for another seventy years or another week, what's the point if I'm not living the life I want?

End-of-the-world stories tend to ring true. I've always been drawn to them, but as I wrote my own, I found surprising pleasure in creating a world that is so radically changed, yet where there's so much meaning and value in every small and ordinary thing we have, and take for granted: hot showers, enough food, friends, routines.

We're all going to die sometime, so you might as well die pushing the odds for something that matters.

hearing again the words from the Gullah woman, All shut-eye ain't sleep; all good-bye ain't gone.

Don't see the notes. See the music. See the story it is telling you. Allow the music to change you. Allow it to give you the courage to do whatever you need to

Den mätta dagen, den är aldrig störst Den bästa dagen, är en dag av törst Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd Men det är vägen, som är mödan värd

Alla är inte sanna nog för att höra sanningen, det är det sorgliga. Den kunde vara en bro mellan människa och människa - så länge den är frivillig, ja - så länge den ges som en gåva och tas emot som en gåva. Är det inte underligt att allting mister sitt värde så fort det upphör att vara en gåva - till och med sanningen?

The sated day is never first The best day is a day of thirst Yes, there is goal and meaning in our path - but it is the way that is the labour's worth.

Nog finns det mål och mening i vår färd, men det är vägen som är mödan värd.

The goal of human life is not death but resurrection.

Reason is the inextinguishable impulse to philosophize with whose destruction reason itself is destroyed.

Existenz only becomes clear through reason; reason only has content through Existenz.

Is there always under the glory of white wings and graceful speed, the scaffolding of a cross? If you meet a woman who sails her life with strength and grace and assurance, talk to her. What you will find is that there has been a suffering, that at some time she has left herself for (hanging) dead. We are so busy doing and achieving that we have lost touch with our inner life – that life that gives meaning to symbols and conversely the symbols that give meaning to life.

Francis because it has not had the key to him: he is Juan Perón in ecclesiastical translation.

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.