Quotes About Meaning

Life is a mission, not a career.

Uncertain as I was as I pushed forward. I felt right in my pushing, as if the effort itself meant something.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.

Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share.

As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it's only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it's gone forever.

If we don't try, we don't do and if we don't do why are we here on earth?

If your life means nothing to anyone, it does mean a lot to you and that's what is important.

The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

Living without meaning is not Life, it is Death. It is like being in the graveyard except that you still have breath.-RVM

What's freedom for? To know eternity.

The sacred words penetrate the heart.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.

Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor.

Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning.

Emo always meant emotional. Any kind of art or music should be emotional. If its not, than it's pretty much just a jingle selling bleach or pizza.

Music is the space between the notes.

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

I'd kill myself without music. Immediately. Life is pointless without music for me.

Music's at its best when it has a purpose.

When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.