Quotes About Meaning

Basically, we live a short, disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up oor lives wi shite, things like careers and relationships tae delude oorsels that it isnae aw totally pointless.

Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n ?w. That's it; end ay fuckin story.

Fuck that: take shagging n peeve oot ay the equation n yir left wi the sqare root ay swee fuck all!

Another cunt oaf ma fuckin Christmas caird list. -Didnae ken ye kept a list, likesay, Franco... -Every cunt keeps a fuckn list. He taps his heid, -A Christmas caird list, n that cunt's fuckin well oaf it!

Still, failure, success, what is it? Whae gies a fuck. We aw live, then we die, in quite a short space ay time n aw. That's it; end ay fuckin story.

What had come from that? All this? Surely not? Life had to be more than a series of unsolvable mysteries. Surely we were entitled to some fuckin answers.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

What meaning has a compliment if one hears it night and day.

Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

Do you call yourself an artist?" "Yes." "How absurd. You never sold a picture in your life." "Is that what being an artist means—selling? I thought it meant one who was always seeking without absolutely finding. I thought it means the contrary from 'I know it, I have found it.' When I say I am an artist, I only mean

Art is amoral; so is life.

Dintotdeauna cititul însemnase pentru el bucuria cea mai mare È™i mai statornic?, È™i cu atât mai mult îl pasiona acum, când în povestea triumfului sau a înfrângerilor, a suferinÈ›elor sau a bucuriilor altora g?sea o evadare din umbra st?ruitoare a propriei sale nereuÈ™ite... în fiecare carte pe care o citea încerca s? descopere È›elul care ar putea da vieÈ›ii lui un nou sens.

Toat? marea literatur? are un caracter universal. Altfel piere.

THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.

For a wise man, I have been told, once said, 'Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate in empty phrases.' But alas, my lady, I am but a mass of empty phrases, it would seem.

What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.

Your phraseology is obscure, but I think I understand.

For what could any Entity, conscious of eternal existence, want – but an end?

Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless.

It is the essence of a good title, in my opinion, that it means more after you have completed the story than before you started it. If that is not true, then either the title or the story, or both, is trivial.

no human mind has created those equations directly. We have merely spent decades programming more powerful computers and they have devised and stored the equations, but, of course, we don't know if they are valid and have meaning. It depends entirely on how valid and meaningful the programming is in the first place.

Inevitably, he said, What is the meaning of this? It is the precise question and precise wording thereof that has been put to the atmosphere on such occasions by an incredible variety of men since humanity was invented. It is not recorded that it has ever been asked for any purpose other than dignified effect.

La palabra «libertad» no tiene sentido cuando se aplica a un robot. Sólo un ser humano puede ser libre.

A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy.