Quotes About Meaning

Nothing on earth really matters, there is nothing to fear, and death is but a question of style, a mere literary device, a musical resolution.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

I feel I understand Existence, or at least a minute part Of my existence, only through my art

Time means succession, and succession, change: Hence timelessness is bound to disarrange Schedules of sentiment.

The calendar says I had known him only a few months but there exist friendships which develop their own inner duration, their own eons of transparent time, independent of rotating, malicious music.

There is yet another reason why I cannot, nor wish to, believe in God: the fairy tale about him is not really mine, it belongs to strangers, to all men; it is soaked through by the evil-smelling effluvia of millions of other souls that have spun about a little under the sun and then burst…

What (Ada asks) are eyes anyway? Two holes in the mask of life. What (she asks) would they mean to a creature from another corpuscle or milk bubble whose organ of sight was (say) an internal parasite resembling the written word deified? What, indeed, would a pair of beautiful (human, lemurian, owlish) eyes mean to anybody if found lying on the seat of a taxi?

Elmenni annyi, mint kicsit meghalni, és meghalni annyi, mint kicsit túl messze menni.

There is nothing so banal in the world,' said Ada 'than pitching stones at a hawfinch.

Religion is boring and alien to me and relates no more than a chimera to what is to me the reality of the spirit.

Cannot it actually be that in a wildly literal sense, unacceptable to one's reason, he meant disappearing in his art, dissolving in his verse, thus leaving of himself, of his nebulous person, nothing but verse?

Nemcsak a gondolatok, hanem egyszersmint a dolgok világában is élünk. A szavak tapasztalat nélkül értelmetlenek.

As palavras sem a experiência não teriam qualquer significado.

Yaln?zca düÅŸünceler dünyas?nda deÄŸil, nesneler dünyas?nda da ya??yoruz biz. Deneyim olmaks?z?n kelimeler anlams?zd?r.

A writer is lost when he grows interested in such questions as 'what is art?' and 'what is an artist's duty?

Nuestra existencia no es mas qué un cortocircuito de luz entre dos eternidades de oscuridad.

reality" (one of the few words which mean nothing without quotes)

Where, where... M'sieur Pierre mimicked him. You know where. Off to do chop-chop.

Life is a message scribbled in the dark. Anonymous.

We are absurdly accustomed to the miracle of a few written signs being able to contain immortal imagery, involutions of thought, new worlds with live people, speaking, weeping , laughing... I wish you to gasp not only at what you read but at the miracle of its being readable.

The whole history of literary fiction as an evolutionary process may be said to be a gradual probing of deeper and deeper layers of life.

Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.

If there is some red spot on one of my paintings it is unlikely to be the heart of the work. The painting was done regardless of it. You could remove the red and still the painting would be there. But in Matisse's work it is inconceivable that you could remove a spot of red, no matter how small without the entire painting instantly collapsing.' Pablo Picasso

The prerequisite for writing is having something to say.