Quotes About Meaning

And if something is only itself, it doesn't particularly matter.

The matter forever, you have to matter to those who don't care.

A book becomes popular because of its text, but it's the subtext that makes it live forever. For

That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can't control life, at least you can control your version.

What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

HELLO! Look at me. HELLO! I am so ZEN. This is BLOOD. This is NOTHING. Hello. Everything is nothing, and it's so cool to be ENLIGHTENED. Like me.

How you're still always trapped. How your head is the cave, your eyes the cave mouth. How you live inside your head and only see what you want. How you only watch the shadows and make up your own meaning.

We went sailing one time, and he wore a Speedo, and any smart woman should know that means bisexual at least.

Religions exist because people would rather have a wrong answer than no answer at all.

It's funny how the beauty of art has so much more to do with the frame than the artwork itself.

No, none of us seem so very real. We're only supporting characters in the lives of each other. Any real truth, any precious fact will always be lost in a mountain of shattered make-believe.

My parents meant well, but the road to Hell is paved with publicity stunts.

It's not true that your life flashes before your eyes when you die. At least, not all of it. Some of your life might flash. Other portions of your life it might take you years and years to recall. That, I think, is the function of Hell: It's a place of remembering. Beyond that, the purpose of Hell is not so much to forget the details of our lives as it is to forgive them.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

So this is why I write. Because most times, your life isn't funny the first time through. Most times, you can hardly stand it. That's why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. And writing makes you look back. Because since you can't control life, at least you can control your version.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.

Do you realize that anything you can do in your lifetime will be meaningless a hundred years from now? she says.

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up.

What you don't understand, you can make mean anything.