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Quotes About Meaning

Here are the dead poets, still musing, still pondering, still questioning the meaning of existence.
~ Virginia Woolf
Mi az élet értelme? Ez volt az egész - ez az egyszer? kérdés, mely a múló évekkel egyre jobban bekeríti az embert. A nagy kinyilatkoztatás nem jött még el soha. A nagy kinyilatkoztatás talán nem jön el már soha.
~ Virginia Woolf
En la enfermedad, parece que las palabras poseen una cualidad mística. Captamos lo que está más allá de su significado superficial, deducimos instintivamente (...)
~ Virginia Woolf
What is the meaning of life? That was all—a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years.
~ Virginia Woolf
Tudo parece significar tantas coisas (...)
~ Virginia Woolf
for there was neither pride nor regret in his tone; indeed it kept its level note, as of one who tells a tale so well known that the words have been rubbed smooth of meaning.
~ Virginia Woolf
to say, Oh, yes, Frisk. I'll call him Frisk. She wanted even to say, Was
~ Virginia Woolf
It might be possible, Septimus thought, looking at England from the train window as they left Newhaven, it might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
~ Virginia Woolf
Kokia gyvenimo prasm?? Tai ir viskas - paprastas klausimas, slenkant metams žmog? vis labiau apninkantis. Didysis apreiškimas taip ir neat?jo. Didysis apreiškimas, matyt, apskritai niekada neateina. Esama tik kasdienini? stebukl?li?, nušvitim?, tamsoje netik?tai ?žiebiam? degtuk?, kaip štai dabar.
~ Virginia Woolf
He was attaching meanings to words of a symbolical kind. A serious symptom, to be noted on the card.
~ Virginia Woolf
Ha fontolóra vesszük a dolgot, ki tudja, nem ezt gondolta-e talán: vajon valóban mindent ki tudnak mondani a szavak? Mondanak egyáltalán valamit? Nem rombolják-e le a valóságot, mely egyszer?en meghaladja a teljesítÅ'képességüket?
~ Virginia Woolf
But if there are no stories, what end can there be, or what beginning?
~ Virginia Woolf
Clothes are but a symbol of something hid deep beneath.
~ Virginia Woolf, Orlando
What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.
~ Vivian Gornick
Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I liked, as I like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn them inside out, to come upon them unawares. What is this jest in majesty? This ass in passion? How do god and devil combine to form a live dog?
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Life is a message scribbled in the dark.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Without you I wouldn't have moved this way, to speak the language of flowers.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Death often is the point of life's joke.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
What are these hopes, and who is this savior?" "Imagination," replied Cincinnatus.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
realidade (uma das poucas palavras que só fazem sentido entre aspas)
~ Vladimir Nabokov