Quotes About Meaning

Rant goes, Really, truly with her whole entire heart, does Echo hate somebody? I go, doesn't Rant mean love? And Rant shrugs and says, Ain't it the same thing?

Grace says, We all die. She says, The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

The worst strat­egy I could pur­sue is self-?im­prove­ment.

You have a class of young men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe

you can make mean anything.

If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you.

We're the middle children of the history, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives

All these stupid rocks, I say, what's your goal? This isn't about getting something done, Denny says. It's about the doing, you know, the process. But what are you going to do with all these rocks? And Denny says, I don't know until I collect enough. But what's enough? I say. I don't know, dude, Denny says, I just want the days of my life to add up to something.

Each romance, the type of self-destructive gesture Hedda Hopper would call marry-kiri.Instead of plunging a sword into one's stomach, you repeatedly throw yourself on the most inappropriate erect penis.

Everything is nothing by itself.

We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.

Little voice gives us the facts. Big voice gives us the meaning—or at least a character's subjective interpretation of the events.

The only way that America can protect its prosperity and political stability will be to depopulate the Third World? Should we be surprised that the AIDS virus showed up about 1975? Do you understand what the term depopulate means?

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.

There's the obituary to look for the next week, six column inches about nothing that really mattered

Nuestra generación no ha vivido una gran guerra ni una gran crisis, pero nosotros sí que estamos libran­do una gran guerra espiritual. Hemos emprendido una gran revolución contra la cultura. La gran crisis está en nuestras vidas. Sufrimos una crisis espiritual.

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

I just want the days of my life to add up to something. The way every day of your life, the way it can just disappear in front of the television, Denny says he wants a rock to show for each day. Something tangible. Just one thing. A little monument to mark the end of each day... Tombstone isn't the right word, but it's the first word that comes to mind.

Si no entiendes algo, puedes hacer que signifique cualquier cosa.

How the agent explained this to me was, we weren't targeting the smartest people in the world, just the most.

By that she means fully erect. Condom-ready.

And the kid is stupid enough to think a picture or a sculpture or a story could somehow replace anybody you love.

Es gracioso que la belleza del arte tenga mucho más que ver con el marco que con la obra de arte en sí misma.