Quotes About Meaning

Life only has narrative when we frame it and edit it and call it certain things.

It's really important for me to have a record which has a strong narrative feel to it.

Stories and narratives are one of the most powerful things in humanity. They're devices for dealing with the chaotic danger of existence.

Narratives are very important to me.

The exact meaning of irony is so narrow that the word is hardly worth using; in its broad, current definition, it's a euphemism for sarcasm. 'I'm not being sarcastic; I'm being ironic.' No, you're not. You're evading the responsibility for being sarcastic.

I can speak in cliches and say how much the Israel national team means to us, but we have to prove that on the pitch.

It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the heart of the nationalist.

Latin is beautiful and has become something of an international language, but there is also something about singing in your native language that has meaning.

Those who resist are relentlessly self-critical. They ask the hard questions that mass culture, which promises an unachievable eternal youth, fame and financial success, deflects us from asking. What does it mean to be born? What does it mean to live? What does it mean to die? How do we live a life of meaning? What is justice? What is truth? What is beauty? What does our past say about our present? How do we defy radical evil?

Technological advancement and wealth are conflated in capitalism with human progress. All aspects of human existence that cannot be measured or quantified—beauty, truth, love, grief, the search for meaning, and the struggle with our own mortality—are ignored and ridiculed.

Per il dolore, la felicità, l'amore non ci sono segni. E questo mi sembra di rara infelicità.

The purpose of life is not to maintain personal comfort; it's to grow the soul.

I don't know my place in the bigger scheme of things, but I do know I'm here on this earth for a reason, and I never make the mistake of thinking that what I do is trivial. I trust in myself. I am important.

What does kiciciyapi mitawa mean? He kept his head on her breasts. What? You called me kicicyapi mitawa. It sounded so beautiful. It wasn't Japanese. What was it? It's the voice of the Lakota. It would sound silly in English. He cupped her breast, his fingers moving lightly over her skin. His breath warm on her heart. I want to know. It didn't sound silly when you said it. It sounded...beautiful. It made me feel beautiful. And loved. He kissed her breast. I called you my heart. And you are.

I promise to be careful. Really careful, she insisted. He found the hard edges of his mouth turning up. Really really careful, he clarified.

She was strong. She had embraced his world. His soul was intact, and that mattered to him. Living mattered to him.

She's my Anya. My Blythe. She always was. It wasn't some bullshit white-knight rescue-her thing.

To the rest of the world, she was samurai, to Sam, she was love.

Someone to care about him. Someone to be his center. Someone to make him feel alive and passionate about living.

My name's all about the bible. Malichai was either just a book or a prophet or both, although my mother couldn't even get the spelling right. That was so like her. [...] But he felt more often, he was the prophet, letting his enemy know he was doomed.

You continually surprise me, Malichai, in a good way. There was genuine surprise in her voice.

Lexi, He breathed her name. You have no idea what you mean to me. -Gavriil

The aesthetic moment constitutes this deep rapport between subject and object

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'...