Quotes About Meaning

Ego non baptiso te in nomine...but make out the rest yourself.

how it is that we still refuse to be comforted for those who we nevertheless maintain are dwelling in unspeakable bliss; why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city. All these things are not without their meanings.

Or is it, that as in essence whiteness is not so much a color as the visible absence of color, and at the same time the concrete of all colors; is it for these reasons that there is such a dumb blankness, full of meaning, in a wide landscape of snows - a colorless, all-color of atheism from which we shrink?

cool? Yes, that's the word;

Casi incomprensible es también ese subalterno prekafkiano llamado Bartleby que jamás habla si no es para contestar;

religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

I want to share all of my New York with you, Melissa. My house, my friends, my life. It's not just about where you live, what you have. It's about who you are with. I know you get that, and I can't tell what it means to me.

Is there any reward? I'm beginning to doubt it. I am broken and bored, Is there any reward? Reassure me, Good Lord, And inform me about it. Is there any reward? I'm beginning to doubt it.

The reason the Dead do not return nowadays is the boredom of it.

My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius

The tongue of man is a twisty thing.

For lo? my words no fancied woes relate; I speak from science and the voice of fate.

Words as empty as the wind are best left unsaid

The struggle itself [...] is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Many are the birds who under the sun's rays wander the sky; not all of them mean anything

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

?injenica je da sam jedinstven. Ne zanima me šta jedan ?ovek može saopštiti drugim ljudima, kao i onaj filozof ja smatram da se veštinom pisanja ništa ne može preneti. Za dosadne i proste sitnice nema mesta u mome duhu, koji je predodre?en za velike stvari.

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

If racism can't be shown to be natural, then it is the result of certain conditions, and we are impelled to eliminate those conditions.

But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world—by a teacher, a writer, anyone—is a judgment. The judgment that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts, omitted, are not important.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

While life will always be filled with sound and fury, it can be more than a tale signifying nothing.

If the universe is created, then there must be reality beyond the universe...The Creator is the source of life and establishes its meaning and purpose....To study the origin and development of the universe is, in a sense, to investigate the basis for any meaning and purpose to life. Cosmology has deep theological and philosophical ramifications.

Typically, preachers in our work-oriented society teach that God rested to provide humanity with a precedent for rest, an example for our good. Seldom have I heard mention of the other meaning for rest, the one used in musical notation. This meaning refers to cessation rather than recovery from weariness. Our enjoyment of music owes much to these brief pauses.