Quotes About Meaning

what you can't understand you can make mean anything.

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

Mark my words: Being dead isn't all sitting around in remorseful reflection and bitter self-recrimination. Death, like life, is what you make of it.

Tienes que saber, no temer, saber que algún día vas a morir, y hasta que no entiendas eso, eres inútil.

A quello che non capisci puoi dare qualunque significato.

Qué es peor, el infierno o la nada? Quema los museos, límpiate el culo con la Mona Lisa, para que al menos Dios aprenda tu nombre.

We don't live in the real world anymore. We live in a world of symbols.

It's weird how the name outlives the person, the signifier outlasts the signified, the symbol the symbolized.

no, this wasn't about money. Not everything is about money

La publicidad hace que compren ropas y coches que no necesitan. Generaciones y generaciones han desempeñado trabajos que odiaban para poder comprar cosas que en realidad no necesitan. 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 espirirual.

What you end up doing," the mechanic says, is you spend your life searching for a father and God.

z?u dac? dobitocul ?sta mic nu merita o scatoalc?. De fapt, merita tot ce i s-a întîmplat. Pentru c? s-a am?git s? cread? c? viitorul îi va aduce numai lucruri bune. Cu condiÅ£ia s? munceÅŸti din greu. S? înveÅ£i din greu. S? alergi din greu. Åži-atunci toate îÅ£i vor merge strun?, iar viaÅ£a ta va avea un sens.

The big question people ask isn't 'What's the nature of existence?' the mouth says. 'The big question people ask is 'What's that from?

Pero si la realidad no es más que un conjuro, y no quieres realmente lo que crees que quieres... —Acerca su cara a mi cara y dice—: Si no tienes libre albedrío. No sabes qué sabes en realidad. Realmente no amas a quien solamente crees que amas. ¿Qué razones te quedan para vivir?

bizler, tarihin ortanca çocuklar?y?z. bir amac?m?z ya da yerimiz yok, ne büyük sava?? yaÅŸad?k ne de büyük buhran?. bizim sava??m?z ruhani bir savaÅŸ, en büyük buhran?m?z; hayatlar?m?z.

All a gun does is focus an explosion in one direction. You have a class of young strong 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. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 19

Åžimdiden önce, ÅŸimdiden önce, ÅŸimdiden önceki her ÅŸey yan?mda ta??y?p durduÄŸum bir hikayeden ibaret. San?r?m bu durum dünyadaki herkes için geçerli. Benim yeni bir hikayeye ihtiyac?m var.

My purpose is to give people glorious stories to tell.

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

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.

Language had arrived from outer space and mated together lizards and monkeys or whatever until it had customized a host which could sustain it. That first person had been introduced to the complicated DNA sequence of proper nouns and compound verbs. Outside of language he didn't exist. There was no method to escape. To feel anything, anymore, required ever-increasing amounts of words. Great landfills and airlifts of words. It took a mountain of talk to achieve even the tiniest insight.

We don't live in the real world anymore," she said. "We live in a world of symbols.

why is it a terrible battle scene like picasso's guernica can be beautiful, while a painting of two unicorns kissing in a flower garden can look like crap. does anybody really know why they like anything?

perchè appena uno trova una buona ragione per farle, le cose perdono il loro fascino.