Quotes About Meaning

He does not know what freedom is. Freedom is a word, less than a word, a noise, one of the multitude of noises I make when I open my mouth.

The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.

So that someone might want to put you in a book...So that you may be worth putting in a book...Live like a hero...Be a main character. Otherwise, what is life for?

Your stay in the camp was merely an allegory, if you know that word. It was an allegory--speaking at the highest level--of how scandalously, how outrageously a meaning can take up residence in a system without becoming a term in it.

All is allegory... Each creature is key to all other creatures.

But two and two do equal four. Unless you give some strange, special meaning to equal. You can count it off for yourself: one two three four. If two and two really equalled three then everything would collapse into chaos. We would be in another universe, with other physical laws. In the existing universe two and two equal four. It is a universal rule, independent of us, not man-made at all. Even if you and I were to cease to be, two and two would go on equalling four.

but what do slow and fast matter any more?

Photographs is not the same as just name, is more living. Otherwise, why save photographs? (Marijana to Mr Rayment)

Is that the secret meaning of the word story, do you think: a storing place of memories?

And you trust yourself to divine that, from the words I use - to divine whether it comes from my heart?

Tenemos hambre pero no de pan (eso nos dan de comer todos los benditos días, pan con frijoles en salsa de tomate) sino de la palabra, la palabra flamígera que nos revele por qué estamos aquí.

Qué quieres decir con eso de "si no hay otras vidas"? –¿Si se terminan las vidas y los números, y todo lo demás? ¿Quién seré si me muero y punto? –

What solace are lapidary paradoxes for the loves of the body?

Ar gali b?ti, kad žmon?s, kurie netiki sielomis, vis tiek jas turi <...>?

Che cosa ci facciamo qui? Era quella, da sempre, la domanda non pronunciata. Lui lo sapeva e lo sapeva anche lei. La sua lettera, per quanto vilmente, aveva almeno accennato a quella domanda: Che ci facciamo in questa sterile parte del mondo? Perché passiamo la vita ammazzandoci così di lavoro se questo posto non era fatto perché ci vivesse la gente, se tutto il progetto di umanizzare questa terra era sbagliato fin dall'inizio?

Si no hablo, si no me explico, ¿quién soy entonces? Un buey. Nadie. Quizá un psicópata. Quizá. Pero ciertamente un don nadie, un cero, alguien sin lugar en este mundo. Tú eso no lo entiendes, ¿verdad? Tú eres un hablante parsimonioso, está claro. Sopesas y meditas cada palabra antes de soltarla. Tiene que haber de todo en este mundo.

Hoy está usted de mal humor! No hace falta ningún designio elevado que justifique la vida. La vida es buena en sí misma;

Uno-dos-tres": ¿acaso es un simple cántico que aprendemos en la escuela, ese cántico automático que llamamos "contar"? ¿O bien existe una manera de ver a través del cántico y percibir lo que hay detrás y más allá de él, a saber: el reino de los números en sí; de

Pero su hijo no le está pidiendo que analice oraciones gramaticalmente; le pregunta por qué está aquí. Para qué. Con qué fin. Pide una respuesta al gran misterio que todos, hasta el microbio más humilde, tenemos que encarar.

perché siamo qui? - Non so cosa dire. Siamo qui per lo stesso motivo per cui ci sono tutti gli altri. Abbiamo avuto la possibilità di vivere e l'abbiamo accettata. È una gran cosa vivere. La più grande di tutte.

Be a main character, otherwise what is life for?

To fathom hell or soar angelic/Just take a pinch of psychedelic.

What hell does is recognize that people have intrinsic value. If God loves intrinsic value, then he has go to be a sustainer of persons, because that means he is a sustainer of intrinsic value.

Thanks for putting me up for it ... trahyner . As V's eyes flared, Butch said, Yeah, I looked up what the word meant. 'Beloved Friend' fits you perfect as far as I'm concerned. V Flushed. Cleared his throat. Good Deal, cop. Good... deal.