Quotes About Meaning

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

Literature is a power to be possessed, not a body of objects to be studied.

The answers you get from literature depend upon the questions you pose.

"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

Here we stand between two eternities of darkness. What are we to do with this glory while it is still ours?

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

Music sweeps by me as a messenger carrying a message that is not for me.

Music touches places beyond our touching.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eter1nal youth.

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

It is not how many years we live, but rather what we do with them.

Realize life as an end in itself. Functioning is all there is.

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.

An evening like this would be empty without some reference to [politics], so let's just think of this as empty.

I was chosen to speak due to my warm personality. . . . Look up warm and it means "not so hot."

Thank you for the privilege of speaking to you in this magnificent auditorium. You know the meaning of the word auditorium, don't you? It is derived from two Latin words, audio, "to hear," and taurus, "the bull."

This gathering is what I call "intimate," which really means "Where is everybody?"

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. ... To face every opportunity of life thoughtfully, and ask its meaning bravely and earnestly, is the only way to meet supreme opportunities when they come, whether open-faced or disguised.

I am not fond of uttering platitudes In stained-glass attitudes.

Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being.