Quotes About Meaning

Ne të gjithë jemi duke shkuar për të vdekur, të gjithë ne, çfarë cirku! Kjo vetë duhet të na bëjë ta duam njëri-tjetrin, por kjo nuk e bën. Ne jemi të terrorizuar dhe të rrafshuar nga trivialiteti, ne jemi duke u ngrënë nga asgjëja.

nothing matters and we know nothing matters and that matters…

did she love you? only as an extension of herself. what else can love be? the common sense to care very much for something very good. it needn't be related by bloodline. it can be a red beachball or a piece of buttered toast.

The difference between being subtle and abstract is the difference between knowing and saying it in a gentler way and not knowing and saying it in a way that will let you off the hook. To be abstract with the word is all right if you use it like paint and seek the pure word, but it is difficult, in the language, to have near purity without near meaning.

Když chce nÄ›kdo zabít Boha, znamená to, že ho chci zabít i já?

To do things, simple things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day … was a man born just to endure those things and then die?

When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

if death is so fearful then life must be good? dandy then, babe, genuinely traginew, and I've found out why men sign their names to their works— not that they created them but more than the others did not.

My father was a great literary teacher. He taught me the meaning of pain. Pain without reason.

I have seen dogs with more style than men, although not many dogs have style. Cats have it with abundance.

nothing in the air but clouds. nothing in the air but rain. each man's life too short to find meaning and all the books almost a waste. I sit and listen to them singing I sit and listen to them.

Only the poor knew the meaning of life; the rich and the safe had to guess.

La poesía dice demasiado en demasiado poco tiempo; la prosa dice demasiado poco y se toma demasiado tiempo.

There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D. H. Lawrence had known that.

tu figlio di puttana, disse lei, sto cercando di costruire una relazione che abbia senso. non puoi costruirla con un martello, disse lui

And the writers keep writing and the artists keep painting but it doesn't mean too much.

Fay had grey hair and always dressed in black. She said she was protesting the war.

but the man with the whip was a part of the whole no matter how seemingly useless and stupid and once great thoughts often with time become useless and stupid. but Schopenhauer's rage was so beautiful so well placed that I laughed out loud then put him down next to Nietzsche who was also all too human.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. (...) Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

There is nothing more magic and beautiful than lines forming across paper. It's all there is. It's all there ever was.

you are alone, Chinaski, and below the stage the seats are empty. the theatre is dark. why do you keep acting? what a bad habit.

the best writers have said very little and the worst, far too much.

that's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

the difference between Art and Life is that Art is more bearable