Quotes About Meaning

one could drown in irrelevance.

When he replied with her name, it sounded like a new word — the syllables remained the same, the meaning was different.

Oblivion seemed the only reasonable option.

The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it.

This is the pre-verbal language that linguists call Mentalese. Hardly a language, more a matrix of shifting patterns, consolidating and compressing meaning in fractions of a second, and blending it inseparably with its distinctive emotional hue. ... So that when a flash of red streaks in across his left peripheral vision ... it already has the quality of an idea ... unexpected and dangerous, but entirely his, and not of the world beyond himself.

In the minds of the principals, the history of the marriage was redrafted to have been always doomed, love was recast as delusion.

Self-aware existence. I'm lucky to have it, but there are times when I think that I ought to know better what to do with it. What it's for. Sometimes it seems entirely pointless.

Now I must listen again to Claude's set piece on menu terms, as if he's the first ever to spot these unimportant absurdities. He lingers on "pan-fried." What is pan but a deceitful benediction on the vulgar and unhealthy fried?

the exclamation mark was the first resort of those who shout to make themselves clearer.

No child is an island. She thought her responsibilities ended at the court room walls. But how could they? He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural, could give. Meaning.

didn't use, and hadn't even heard, the word "totalitarianism." I probably would have thought it had something to do with refusing a drink.

Soon human meaning would be bleached from the rocks, the landscape would assume its beauty and draw him in; the unimaginable age of the mountains and the fine mesh of living things that lay across them would remind him that he was part of this order and insignificant within it, and he would be set free.

I write from life. But the reader, you know, imports the symbols, the associations. I can't keep them out. That's how poetry works.

Either I've always spoken to her from the heart in times like this, or I never have and I don't know what it means.

Lo necesito. Tengo cincuenta y nueve años. Es mi último cartucho. Todavía no he visto pruebas de que exista otra vida después de ésta.

She listed some relevant ingredients, goals towards which a child might grow. Economic and moral freedom, virtue, compassion and altruism, satisfying work through engagement with demanding tasks, a flourishing network of personal relationships, earning the esteem of others, pursuing larger meanings to one's existence, and having at the centre of one's life one or a small number of significant relations defined above all by love.

Nothing before me. Self-aware existence. I'm lucky to have it, but there are times when I think that I ought to know better what to do with it. What it's for. Sometimes it seems entirely pointless.

The temptation of the old, born into the middle of things, was to see in their deaths the end of everything, the end of times. That way their deaths made more sense.

Note care se straduiesc sa transmita o semnificatie umana limpede, dar nu semnifica nimic. Doar frumusete pura. Ori dragoste in forma ei cea mai vaga, cea mai larga, pentru toti oamenii, fara deosebire.

May God give you peace," she replied. As she said it, she discovered new meaning in that wish of hers, an entirely different meaning. It was as if, at long last, she had found the true meaning of this wish that people repeated every day so many times over.

Aha! So I'm not crazy." "You are most definitely crazy," Derek said. "But in a deranged, endearing way.

What would I do without the moral compass of a teenage werewolf?

Everybody has something, that one thing they must do to feel happy. I think this is yours, and I want you to be happy. You don't have to do it, but it's here if you choose to come back to it.

Who is that?" "Your replacement." "You replaced me with a shaved poodle?" "He's got mad skills.