Quotes About Meaning

What is writing after all but an attempt to sort out the confusion of life?" @isabelallende

L'importante è quel che si fa al mondo, e non come ci si arriva.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.

Puede que fuera sólo una corriente que vino y se fue -dije yo-. Pero para nosotros es nuestra vida.

I don't feel a real need to specify the meaning of something. When I was little and I was introduced to Led Zeppelin, I didn't know what a zeppelin was or who Zeppelin was or what the machine was. The real meaning is whatever feelings and memories you attach to the music.

Abstraction is everybody's zero but nobody's nought.

I don't care how much hardware you throw at an audience. If they are not emotionally invested in the thing, it's zero. I can name a slew of films, but I have no ax to grind. I understand the commerce of Hollywood probably better than anyone.

There are so many games where you fight aliens or zombies, and they have very high-fidelity graphics, but they don't ask the question of why the events are happening.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

I feel like that religions generally ask the biggest questions. They may not always have the best answers, but they're the zone of human activity that regularly asks the biggest questions.

Science says: "We must live," and seeks the means of prolonging, increasing, facilitating and amplifying life, of making it tolerable and acceptable; wisdom says: "We must die," and seeks how to make us die well.

When the audience knows you know better, it's satire, but when they think you can't do any better, it's corn.

The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope, not of despair.

This struggle of people against their conditions, this is where you find the meaning in life.

You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind.

Death does not frighten me, but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.

Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am, and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.

All that is good in art is the expression of one soul talking to another; and is precious according to the greatness of the soul that utters it.

Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.

The poem is a little myth of man's capacity of making his life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see - it is, rather, a light by which we may see - and what we see is life.

When you read and understand a poem, comprehending its rich and formal meanings, then you master chaos a little.

The object of art is to give life a shape.