Quotes About Meaning

The events of my twenties felt historic, but the people involved did not. I wanted a hero - someone who could make sense of what was happening around me and in some way redeem it.

It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

Even now, when I try and think of band names just randomly, I'm so thankful that 'fun.' is the name of the band. I never really think twice about it. It is so simple and so easy.

It's funny what memory does, isn't it? My favorite holiday tradition might not have happened more than once or twice. But because it is such a good memory, so encapsulating of everything I love about the holidays, in my mind it happened every year. Without fail.

Elections have to have at least a little meaning. Obama ran on income tax hikes for the wealthy. People knew they were voting for that. They want that. And it's good policy.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

You can write very obtuse and abstract lyrics, and if they want to, people are going to find something amazing that you're saying.

Nobody wants to say that the man [Obama] is a Marxist. Okay, so he's not a Marxist. He's a progressive! This is semantics.

: There are only two on-buttons for fear, in any permutation you want. One is when something that shouldn't be is, meaning a presence. And, the other one is an absence.

Change your meanings you alter your destiny. Life does not give us what we want. Life gives us whatever we expect.

Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

You gotta be careful with message movies. People say "What do you want people to take away from it?" I always say its totally individual.

Life, to me personally, I believe it is a finite thing, my consciousness, and I want to use it as much as possible.

You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.

Every character is asking: Whats my place? Why am I here? I dont want the answer to be Just because. You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

Meaning, I need you to focus. If you want to save Madaug, you need to listen to me or the mortents will eat both of you Pop-Tarts for breakfast. (Ambrose)

Existence must be asserted in the present if one does not want all life to be defined as an escape toward nothingness.

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)

It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like come, myself, but may it do ya fine.

I'm my own "ideal reader" in the sense that I write novels that I would want to read.

Something about the goat dancing made me want to cry.

The spirit world wants us to know there's more to this life.

If we're honest with ourselves, most people want to know that there's more to this life, there's more after this life.

I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful.