Quotes About Meaning

It's not about the things. It's about your place in this world. It's the space you declare as yours emotionally and spiritually.

Vivi e morti sono uguali.Cerchiamo tutti, semplicemente,un posto dove sentirci a casa. LASSITER

Possessions weren't the thing. The car your drove and the house you lived in and the clothes you wore...were nothing but vocabulary. They weren't the true communication that mattered, they weren't the connections that were important.

gifts are like beauty, are they not. It is in the eye of the recipient that they find their seat, not in the hand of the giver.

A veces las palabras eran menos valiosas que el aire que las transportaba, cuando se trataba de estar cerca.

Yay. Rah. Go, him. Next tat he got was going to be of the frickin' halo over his head. As

As he stammered to give his answer, he reflected that time was never a given, love was never to be taken for granted, and some gifts could not be wrapped and put under a tree.

How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

His friends said, Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there? and Bull said, I like it because it's ugly. All his life was in that line.

I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.

do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.

Every night I still ask the Lord, Why? and havent heard a decent answer yet

I realize I'm just a silly stranger goofing with other strangers for no reason far away from anything that ever mattered to me what that was--Always an ephemeral visitor to the Coast nevery really involved with anyone's lives there because I'm always ready to fly back across the country but not to any life of my own on the other end either, just a traveling stranger like Old Bull Balloon... (p. 178)

You boys going to get somewhere, or just going? We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question.

Ä°kimiz de s?rtüstü yatm?? tavana bak?yor, Tanr?'n?n hayat? bu kadar kederli ve gönülsüz k?larken neyle uÄŸraÅŸt???n? düÅŸünüyorduk.

I felt like telling Japhy everything I thought but I knew it didn't matter and moreover he knew it anyway and silence is the golden mountain.

The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from now till your hand is paralyzed, for THERE will be your work for GOD, since you can not work for God in other ways, and would not, & don't know how, or bend that way, from habit, & from talent in the use & signification & arrangement of the Word.

They put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful rucksack a-back, and asked:-Where are you going? which is precisely what they asked me a year later under Television floodlights in New York, Where are you going?-Just as you cant explain to the police, you cant explain to society Looking for peace.

Praised be I, writing, dead already and dead again

Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?...But cold morning would return, with clouds billowing out of Lightning Gorge like giant smoke, the lake below still cerulean neutral, and empty space the same as ever. O gnashing teeth of earth, where would it all lead to but to prove that the proving itself was nil...

I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.