Quotes About Meaning

Ceci tuera cela

Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have enjoyed myself.

Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition

Nihilism has no point. There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man

It seemed as though he had for a soul the book of the natural law.

It was a garbage heap, and it was Sinai.

You were speaking of my name a little while ago. That touched me; but let us, whoever we may be, distrust names. They may delude us. I am called Felix, and I am not happy. Words are liars. Let us not blindly accept the indications which they afford us. It

In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.

It is possible to conceive of something even more terrible than a hell of suffering, and that is a hell of boredom.

What am I to do on this earth? The choice rests with me: suffer or enjoy. Whither will suffering lead me? To nothingness; but I shall have suffered. Whither will enjoyment lead me? To nothingness; but I will have enjoyed myself.

There is not a metaphor, not an analogy, in slang, which does not contain a lesson.

Tout homme peut avoir dans sa destinée une fin du monde pour lui seul. Cela s'appelle le désespoir. L'âme est pleine d'étoiles tombantes.

Cable by Victor Hugo (then in exile) to his publisher, upon publication of Les Misérables : ? The publisher's response: !

To die is nothing, but it is terrible not to live

The beautiful is as useful as the useful. He added after a pause, More so, perhaps.

Bewigged tragedy has a reason for its existence.

mien identical, only more depressed. But why these workingman's clothes? What was the meaning of this? What signified that disguise? Marius was greatly astonished. When he recovered

Si no hubiera alguien que amara, el sol se apagaría.

A vida é uma invenção medonha não sei de quem. Uma coisa que não dura nada e não vale nada; a gente se mata para viver.

And even to those who deny supernatural incarnations, what does the crucifix represent? The killing of a man of wisdom.

El problema nuestro no es que nos vamos a morir; es que no sabemos como vivir.

Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last. That's why your life flashes before your eyes when you die—you're picking the memories you want. It's like packing.

I love you," he said quietly. "I love you, too." The word felt too small, too ordinary to contain all of this emotion.

Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. —The Velveteen Rabbit Margery Williams