Quotes About Meaning

Perhaps it's not possible to explain, he said. Certain things in your life matter to you because they're important; your acts are certainly important to you, but for me, not a single thin is important any longer neither my acts nor the acts of any of my fellow men. I go on living though. because I have my will. Because I have tempered my will throughout my life until it's neat and wholesome and now it doesn't matter to me that nothing matters. My will controls the folly of my life.

Everything is filled to the brim," he repeated, "and everything is equal. I'm not like your friend who just grew old. When I tell you that nothing matters I don't mean it the way he does. For him, his struggle was not worth his while, because he was defeated; for me there is no victory, or defeat, or emptiness. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal and my struggle was worth my while.

in every explanation there is a hidden apology.

Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station.

Cada libro, cada tomo que ves, tiene alma. El alma de quién lo escribió, y el alma de quiénes lo leyeron y vivieron y soñaron con él. Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte.

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is shit.

We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music

Everything in life in nonsense. It's just a question of persepctive

Sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

Los regalos se hacen por el gusto del que regala, no por mérito del que recibe.

Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.

How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.

Cada libro, cada tomo que ves, tiene alma. El alma de quien lo escribió, y el alma de quienes lo leyeron y vivieron y soñaron con él. Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte.

Cada libro, cada tomo que ves, tiene alma. El alma de quien lo escribió, y el alma de quienes lo leyeron y soñaron con él. Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza por su páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte.

It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.

He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.

El tiempo pasa más aprisa cuanto más vacío está. Las vidas sin significado pasan de largo como trenes que no paran en su estación.

This is emotional blackmail.' 'No, it's life.

Good words are a vain benevolence that demand no sacrifice and are more appreciated than real acts of kindness.

Nothing in life can be understood until you understand death.

Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content.

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived it and dreamed with it.

A él le hubiere gustado saber que alguien le quería mantener vivo, que le recordaba. El solía decir que existimos mientras alguien nos recuerda.