Quotes About Meaning

No one cares. If you don't exist, then it doesn't matter, right? Evan

Allander continued, his words taking on the color of a rant. "Your educators will embark with you on a supposed journey for the truth, but they'll deceive you. They'll say things that mean nothing—they always do—and you'll be forced to nod and agree as if they're profound.

I was free. Free also means nothing.

Every dollar has a story to tell," Vonn Carp in Dollarapalooza.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

Number is different from quantity.

All right, he thought, so the details were not perfect. But maybe, in a sense, that was part of the magic, too.

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.

Live in the moment, just do it - those are phrases thrown around by people who don't know what they mean. Just do it - it's idiotic. You could slap that slogan on a picture of Hitler and it would make as much sense. He did it, all right.

Somehow something has gone wrong with poetry in our culture. We have lost touch with its purpose and value, and in doing so, we have lost contact with essential aspects of our own emotional and spiritual lives.

The way the word sinks into the deep snow of the page

This is what was bequeathed us: This earth the beloved left And, leaving, Left to us. No other world But this one: Willows and the river And the factory With its black smokestacks. No other shore, only this bank On which the living gather. No meaning but what we find here. No purpose but what we make. That, and the beloved's clear instructions: Turn me into song; sing me awake.

Art doesn't explain itself.

There is always a social explanation for what we see in art," Albert Camus said in 1947. "Only it doesn't explain anything important.

Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

True solace is finding none, which is to say, it is everywhere.

Sometimes I really do wonder if everything is just random and pointless, whether there's any meaning to anything in this life.

Treacle? What does it mean?' Roscoe grinned. 'Cockney rhyming slang. Treacle as in treacle tart as in sweetheart.

the Arthurian material was never merely 'legends'; it was a myth—a timeless, universal story with many meanings.

Is our rational and self-reliant generation really supposed to accept the idea that God the Almighty not only created the universe but, interestingly enough, also has a stake in our lives?

Life is not only measured by what happens to us. It is measured by the way in which we interpret what happens to us.

in the latter half of the twentieth century, postmodernism upended everything. Universal truths were no longer accepted. "Truth" (postmodernism loves quotation marks) was instead a social construct that depended heavily on cultural context. Nothing was either true or false, but was instead open to interpretation.

Se con Dio non si lotta, Dio è morto.

Vorrei avere nella mia casa: una donna ragionevole, un gatto che passi tra i libri, degli amici in ogni stagione senza i quali non posso vivere.