Quotes About Meaning

Agarramo-nos uma à outra enquanto a vida se esvaía e aprendemos que a felicidade é fugidia.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

I love words," said Livvie. "I have always loved and respected words . . . since a long time ago.

How love builds itself unconsciously, he thought, out of the momentous ordinary.

And if you don't believe memories are worth more than money, then perhaps you've not made the right kind of memories.

In fact, far from being phonetic, hieroglyphs were designed to be indecipherable unless you possessed the key to their meaning. The Egyptian priests, who were guardians of this information, patrolled the borders of their knowledge in order to keep this tool in their own hands. Ever since, the mastery of writing and reading has been an act of power

We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man.

The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to an end.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.

It seemed I'd never before understood the meaning of the word regret. Now it seemed regret was the desperate desire to reverse a specific amount of time... It didn't seem to me that a tiny reversal of time was such a grand request to make of the universe. I would only need a few seconds changed, after all.

Most things, I've come to believe, are not intended.

Will you tell me?" I asked. "Tell you what?" He spoke flatly, as if he dreaded my question and already knew that he would answer it. "What you did." "Why do you think that knowing makes a difference?" "I've thought that all my life." "Well, you're wrong. Knowing don't mean shit.

My belated recognition of his desire actually served the purpose of provoking me to consider him, if only for a moment. It was like high school when just to hear that a boy liked you was sufficient encouragement to agree to go steady with him by the end of the day. Now that I think of it, it is just like life. Not high school.

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive;

A lifetime is woven from moments—from beginnings and endings, joys and misfortunes, and the choices we make. Each moment holds opportunities to grow. to try again — to say "Thank you," or "I'm so sorry." And every day counts.

And you know, I love you, too," Wes told him. "And you know how I mean that, so no making any stupid jokes.

There is a point to everything or nothing at all, depending on your worldview.

Not to you maybe," she said. "But it matters the world having someone show up like I mattered.

When I make a pretty good hook (...) she gives me a toothless smile and an unintelligeble comment I think might be praise.

E tu, ragazza di fuoco? Hai qualche segreto che valga il mio tempo?

Which begs the question, What is?

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life. I try to follow Dr. Aurelius's advice, just going through the motions, amazed when one finally has meaning again. I tell him my idea about the book, and a large box of parchment sheets arrives on the next train from the Capitol

Peeta. On the rooftop the night before our first Hunger Games. He understood it all before we'd even set foot in the arena.