Quotes About Meaning

A chi servono le storie di un ennesimo ebreo? Servono a me. Senza storie non esiste nulla. Le storie sono la memoria del mondo. Senza storie il passato viene cancellato.

It was in the work that she came closest to finding herself, by which we don't mean gaining "self-knowledge" or understanding one's "true nature" but rather how at some point you can see most plainly that this is what you do, this is how you fit in the wider ecology.

it seems to me that life's moments don't have to be so right or not right anymore, so fraught and weighted with valve, but just of themselves, what they are...

A quantum of sweetness... what he meant was not just that a person should have a rightful share of whatever way you'd like to define sweetness, but also that the sweetness itself carries a special levy of contemplation of the infinitudes of sweetness that will go untasted, be forever unknown.

The question, then, is whether being an "individual" makes a difference anymore. That it can matter at all. And if not, whether we in fact care.

Least said soonest meanded

I could imagine my grandmother's opinion about Holly's white wedding dress, since Holly had a little boy in school—but hey, whatever made the bride happy. White used to symbolize the virgin purity of the wearer. Now it just meant the bride had acquired an expensive and unusable dress to hang in her closet after the big day.

I am inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.

When horror is about something - capital-A about - that's when it's really landing.

I like those stories that capture the brutality of life, but there's still some kind of melancholy romance.

Much as I adore the melodies, I choose a song for what it has to say.

I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.

'Is Qadar' is a beautiful melody that will resonate with people.

You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line.

I like music that not only has a pop melody to it but is also deeply about something.

Christianity means a lot more than church membership.

I think, in writing a memoir, you kind of give order to your life.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

No one ever sits you down at age eight and says, 'Aminatta, this is what's happened so far.' You have to work it out for yourself, and by the time you do, it's ancient history to many of the players. We're trying to make sense of the past, so we start to excavate our memories.

If you don't have your experiences in the moment, if you gloss them over with jokes or zoom past them, you end up with curiously dispassionate memories.

I don't just want to create products. I want to reach into people's hearts and minds. I want to create memories.

It's really hard for me to memorize the medical jargon if I don't know the meaning of every single word. So I do have to do a little Wikipedia/YouTube research to figure out what I'm talking about.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.