Quotes About Meaning

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it

Cada libro tiene un alma

sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up. Bernarda

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

Ogni libro, ogni volume possiede un'anima, l'anima di chi lo ha scritto e l'anima di coloro che lo hanno letto, di chi ha vissuto e di chi ha sognato grazie ad esso.

Uno no se da cuenta del vacío en el que ha dejado pasar el tiempo hasta que vive de verdad. A veces la vida, no los días quemados, es solo un instante, un día, una semana o un mes. Uno sabe que está vivo porque duele, porque de repente todo importa y porque cuando ese breve momento se acaba, el resto de su existencia se transforma en un recuerdo al que intenta regresar en vano mientras le queda aliento en el cuerpo

But the years went by in peace. 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.

Mañana, o tal vez pasado, te escribiré otra vez para decirte que te quiero, aunque eso no signifique nada para ti.

Ogni libro, ogni volume che vedi possiede un'anima, l'anima di chi lo ha scritto e l'anima di coloro che lo hanno letto, di chi ha vissuto e di chi ha sognato grazie ad esso.

Querido Daniel, cuanto antes usted se de cuenta de esto, mejor: Nada en esta cochina vida vale dos duros si no tienes alguien con quien compartirlo.

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.

Ahora mismo papá va a ir a tu habitación y le va a echar a patadas para que no vuelva nunca más. Nuestro hijo me lanzó una mirada desesperada. ¿Para qué sirve un padre si no es para misiones heroicas de esta envergadura?

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not for the merits of who receives them," said my father.

Si la vida no era un sueño era al menos una pantomima donde el cruel absurdo del relato fluía siempre entre bambalinas, y no había entre cielo y suelo venganza mayor ni más efectiva que al esculpir la belleza y el ingenio a golpe de palabras para encontrar el sentido en el sinsentido de las cosas.

Julián died alone, convinced that nobody would remember him or his books and that his life had meant nothing," she said. "He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.

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 and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. This

Ogni libro possiede un'anima, l'anima di chi lo ha scritto e di coloro che lo hanno letto, di chi ha vissuto e di chi ha sognato grazie ad esso.

She might have a place of honour in the symbolism, but not in the hierarchy. Religion and war are male pursuits.

Jedes einzelne Buch hat eine Seele. Die Seele dessen, der es geschrieben hat und die Seele derer, die es gelesen und erlebt und von ihm geträumt haben.

Il matrimonio e la famiglia sono un guscio vuoto e spetta a noi riempirlo di significato.

These people who see sin everywhere are sick in their souls and, if you really press me, in their bowels. The endemic condition of the Iberian saint is chronic constipation.

Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station.

Jo sí que sabia, amb tota certesa, que l'única finalitat del nostre amor era, senzillament, l'amor

What will you do now with the gift of your left life?