Quotes About Meaning

Reveries made one soft. he never should have forgotten that the world was on the side of the planners, not the dreamers.

Just a vicar. And with those words she'd tried to reduce him to something manageable, maneuverable, understandable. She'd given no thought as to what the word truly meant. Or why his control was so necessary. It was in proportion to how much he felt and how much he needed to give day after day.

Why does anyone love anyone?" she said. He shifted on the bench and blew out a breath. "I don't know. I know it's the only thing that makes life bearable. And it's the only thing that makes life unbearable.

Is he all right? Jade asked Sterns. He Swooned I know he swooned, Jade replied.

The names of the list mean something. Every one. They mean something to me. Everyone means something to someone.

Is it a blessing in disguise, or is it just a disguise? And if it's just a disguise, then what is it disguising?

Something about knowing exactly what you're doing, and why.

and we both know how beautiful the book will be, how clearly it will speak to something within us—some previously unarticulated thought or reflection that, once recognized, we will never want to be without again.

Maybe the things she loved most weren't meant to be permanent. Maybe the fact that they existed was enough.

Believing in books is a lot like believing in God.

For indeed you have a choice. You can flee and hide, and wait to be found. You can live out your days in terror, without meaning. Or you can take the harder choice, and you can save them.

Bran dissera, uma vez, que a confiança era um conceito sem qualquer significado. Mas, se não podíamos confiar, ficávamos sós, porque nem a amizade, nem a sociedade, nem a família, nem a aliança, podiam existir sem confiança. Sem ela ficávamos dispersos, à mercê dos quatro ventos, sem nada a que nos agarrarmos.

strung a small white stone with a hole in it. 'This is more precious

And I got to thinking about the moral meaning of memory, per se. And what it means to forget, what it means to fail to find and preserve the connection with the dead whose lives you, or I, want or need to honor with our own.

I have been the meaning of rape I have been the problem everyone seeks to eliminate by forced penetration with or without the evidence of slime and/ but let this be unmistakable this poem is not consent I do not consent

A charm has only as much power as one puts into it./ I wear it because it is such a pretty thing./ And the person who gave it to me/ cared enough for my protection:/ a reason greater than any faith.

If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for?

Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

What we mean when we say terrible conditions is conditions which we are aware of as being terrible.

Pentru un b?rbat munca pare s? fie ceva esen?ial, care-l ajut? s?-ndure scurgerea f?r? ?int? a timpului.

Nu poÅ£i tr?i f?r? repetiÅ£ie, f?r? b?taia inimii, dar era adev?rat c? b?t?ile inimii nu însemnau totul în via??.

Dragostea de c?min ?i obliga?ia au rost numai atata timp cat cineva pierde ceva, aruncandu-le cat colo.

Ceea ce simÅ£ea pentru ea era una, iar ceea ce îi f?cuse ea era altceva.

Nici o ÅŸtire interesant?. Totul era un turn de iluzii, din c?r?mizi iluzorii ÅŸi g?unoase. Dac? viaÅ£a ar fi alc?tuit? numai din lucruri importante, ar fi ca o cas? periculoas? de sticl?, greu de manuit. Dar viaÅ£a de toate zilele era întocmai ca titlurile din ziare. Cunoscand lipsa de însemn?tate a existenÅ£ei, toat? lumea aÅŸaz? centrul compasului în propria-i cas?.