Quotes About Meaning

Life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, so let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

I feel this society somewhere has lost its sense of what art is. Art is expression. In expression, you need 100% full freedom and our freedom to express our art is seriously being fucked with. Fuck, the word 'fuck' has many connotations as does the word 'art'.

Life isn't nearly as sacred as the appreciation of passion

Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art.

The meaning of world is the separation of wish and fact.

Our total reality and total existence are beautiful and meaningful . . . . We should judge reality by the little which we truly know of it. Since that part which conceptually we know fully turns out to be so beautiful, the real world of which we know so little should also be beautiful. Life may be miserable for seventy years and happy for a million years: the short period of misery may even be necessary for the whole.

There is a difference between a thing and talking about a thing.

Only someone who (like the Intuitionist) denies that the concepts and axioms of classical set theory have any meaning could be satisfied with such a solution, not someone who believes them to describe some well-determined reality. For in reality Cantor's conjecture must be either true or false, and its undecidability from the axioms as known today can only mean that these axioms do not contain a complete description of reality.

Die Prinzessin war ins Städtchen gegangen, "Knöpfchen kaufen". Wir kauften nie zusammen Knöpfchen, womit jede Art Einkauf gemeint war.

That story always seemed very symbolic to me...Yes, but I forget what it symbolised.

I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.

All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.

In life, the challenge is not so much to figure out how best to play the game; the challenge is to figure out what game you're playing

And, like many philosophers, I am of the school that what goes without saying often goes even better with saying.)

Tu cumpleaños es el diecisiete de diciembre. —Y el tuyo es el veinticuatro de diciembre. —Es decir que, desde que nací, no ha habido un solo segundo en que tú no hayas estado en este mundo.

En los textos antiguos, "explícito" significaba "repentino" e "inesperado". ¿Lo sabías?

La muerte era algo que te llegaba al final, tras haber vivido unas decenas de años y haber ido envejeciendo poco a poco. Un largo camino blanco que se extendía en línea recta hasta desaparecer en la distancia en medio de una luz cegadora. Hay quien llama a esto "la nada", pero nadie la ha visto. La muerte era eso.

Un día hablamos del paraíso, ¿no? Tú dijiste que no creías ni en el otro mundo ni en el paraíso, ¿te acuerdas? -Sí, me acuerdo. -Si la muerte tiene algún sentido, ¿no crees que es incongruente negar la existencia del otro mundo y del paraíso? -¿Por qué? -Porque al morir todo acaba, ¿no? Y si no existe un después, es imposible que la muerte tenga sentido...

Sometimes a scene may be about one thing, and it may end up still being about that, but the emotionality of it comes from somewhere else, or the humor of it comes from somewhere else, and it gives it that real-life quality.

KREMLIN in your language means fortress inside a city, but most people don't know this.