Quotes About Meaning

She showed that oblique-mannered softness which is perhaps more frequent in women of darker complexion and more lymphatic temperament than Mrs. Charmond's was; women who lingeringly smile their meanings to men rather than speak to them, who inveigle rather than prompt, and take advantage of currents rather than steer.

And all this while the subtle-souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in a room, and blinking at the candle; why things around her had taken the shape they wore in preference to every other possible shape.

La bellezza per lei, come per tutti quelli che hanno molto sentito, non risiedeva nelle cose ma in ciò che esse simboleggiavano

The Sinister Spirit sneered: 'It had to be!' And again the Spirit of Pity whispered, 'Why?

These and other of his words were nothing but the perfunctory babble of the surface while the depths remained paralyzed.

Well, because it is provokingly wrong. I am a sort of negation of it. You are very philosophical. 'A negation' is profound talking.

Ah, want of an object to live for - that's all is the matter with me!

kar??l?k? duygular?ndan çok az konuÅŸuyorlard?, böylesi s?nanm?? dostluklarda güzel cümleler ve s?cak ilgi gereksizdi muhtemelen….

she, and Clare also, stood as yet on the debatable land between predilection and love; where no profundities have been reached; no reflections have set in, awkwardly inquiring, 'Whither does this new current tend to carry me? What does it mean to my future? How does it stand towards my past?

Esta mujer significa mucho más para mí, incluso muerta, de lo que tú hayas significado, signifiques o puedas significar.

I say what I mean. Would you like it better if I said 'I'm glad you find me so.' That would be a little fancier, and equally true.

Shiloh isn't haunted—men are haunted.

True' and 'false' are attributes of speech, not of things. And where speech is not, there is neither 'truth' nor 'falsehood.

Words are wise men's counters; they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.

The myth sovereign in the old age was that everything means everything. The myth sovereign in the new is that nothing means anything.

quien salva la vida de un hombre, salva al mundo entero.

We named her Kalisa. Dat name, da essence…it mean given to God. I guess

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.

rather babble away and at least partially express something difficult than reproduce impeccable clichés

A stimulus is a stimulus. The body doesn't give a damn about the meaning of the stimulus. Whether minnows or communion, the sebaceous glands stand up erect.

Is not life in itself a thing of goodness, irrespective of whether the course it takes for us can be called a 'happy' one?

The experience of death must ultimately be the experience of life, or else it is only a wraith.

The perishableness of life...imparts value, dignity, interest to life.

Malice, my dear sir, is the animating spirit of criticism; and criticism is the beginning of progress and enlightenment