Quotes About Meaning

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!

The supreme vice is shallowness.

Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

So many things are unexplainable, and how is it that we know a life, except that we know our own, and it is brought into focus by the death of those around us. (less)

The overexamined life, Claire, it's not worth living.

The only interesting thing, said François Mitterrand, is to live.

We stumble on, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough.

Me preguntas por qué compro arroz y flores? Compro arroz para vivir y flores para tener algo por lo que vivir.

Quando le parole perdono di senso, i popoli perdono la loro libertà.

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

Ada yang mengukur hidup mereka dari hari dan tahun. Yang lain dengan denyut jantung, gairah, dan air mata. Tetapi ukuran sejati di bawah mentari adalah apa yang telah engkau lakukan dalam hidup ini untuk orang lain.

When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom.