Quotes About Meaning

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.

Similes are like songs of love: They much describe, they nothing prove.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.' 'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

A word after a word after a word is power.

When I feel inclined to read poetry, I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.

Every utterance is an event, and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view, therefore, is that no word ever means the same thing twice.

I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.

When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

There is wonderful meaning in the common every-day happenings, the little things that come up in the daily routine, which most of us lose sight of, and that is, the opportunity they give for character building, for mental training, for the object of all of life's endeavor — man-building and woman-building. Your name and face may never appear in the newspapers or magazines, but every day you have an opportunity to live a beautiful life, a helpful life.

Pain is sometimes the cost of a meaningful existence. I can handle that.

Entiendes lo que te quiero decir? Si el globo terrestre desapareciera un día, si, por ejemplo, la Tierra se estrellase contra un cometa, se despedazara y se volatilizase o simplemente se precipitara en el abismo, si por tanto nuestro globo desapareciera sin dejar otro rastro que este sótano repleto de cartapacios, este sótano bastaría para comprender lo que había sido este mundo.

The days went by without incident and often without their name. When you'd unpacked the hours from the day and then the night and piled them all up, you could toss the boxes they came in, which is all that Wednesday or Friday really are.

Ja sam vidio u ?emu je takozvana borbenost nekih "borbenih" ljudi. Oni izmisle svoju "borbu", na silu joj na?u razloge, nadjenu ime, i bore se, bez rizika i rezultata, bore se – samo da ne bi morali misliti i raditi.

Vreme mu?i i zamara samo one koji žive zauzeti jedino ništavnim brigama o svojoj li?nosti i svojim uživanjima, ali ono je kratko i neosetno onima koji, zaboravljaju?i sebe, rade na ma kakvom poslu koji ih prevazilazi; mereno veli?inom jednog smelog i neostvarljivog sna, ono gotovo i ne postoji.

Uzaludno i pogrešno je tražiti smisao u bezna?ajnim a prividno važnim doga?ajima koji se dešavaju oko nas, nego ga treba tražiti u onim naslagama koja stole?a stvaraju oko nekoliko glavnih legendi ?ove?anstva- legendi o prvom grehu, potopu, Prometeju, Sinu ?ove?ijem

Naposletku, sve ?im se ovaj naš život kazuje - misli, napori, pogledi, osmesi, re?i, uzdasi - sve to teži ka drugoj obali, kojoj se upravlja kao cilju, i na kojoj tek dobiva svoj pravi smisao. Sve to ima nešto da savlada i premosti: nered, smrti ili nesmisao, Jer, sve je prelaz, most ?iji se krajevi gube u beskona?nosti, a prema kom su svi zemni mostovi samo de?ije igra?ke, bledi simboli. A sva je naša nada s one strane.

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Njegova kapija je srce mosta koji je srce ove kasabe koja svakom mora da ostane u srcu.

We create forms, like a second order of nature, we arrest youth, retain a glance which in nature would have changed or vanished a moment later, we seize and separate lightning movements which no one would ever have seen and we leave them, with all their mysterious meaning, to the eyes of future generations.

Del resto, non tutto al mondo deve essere detto, scritto, stampato e tradotto. Tra le persone resta molto di inespresso e taciuto, ma comunque di vivo e duraturo. E spesso questo è quanto di migliore e più luminoso ci sia in noi.