Quotes About Meaning

Life without meaning, hope, and love breeds a coldhearted, mean-spirited outlook that destroys the individual and others.

Weren't all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!

Why were love and death such close neighbors?

Buecher muessen schwer sein, weil die ganze Welt in ihnen steckt!

När det gällde traditioner kunde man inte argumentera med dvärgar, lika lite som med präster om religion.

John fand es faszinierend, dass sein ältester Sohn es sich sur Aufgabe gemacht hatte, nach der verlorenen Vergangenheit dieser Welt zu suchen, während sein Vater ihr die Zukunft brauchte.

But the marten laughed. And once again it sounded like an old woman's laughter. All stories end with me, Bluejay, Death said. You will find me everywhere.

It was a page he had Found in the handbook Of heartbreak. Wallace Stevens, "Madame la Fleurie," Collected Poems I

Words weighed light, light as a feather, even the most important of them.

But we'd need words for that, exactly the right words, because only the right words unlock the doors between worlds.

All words are written in the same ink, 'flower' and 'power', say, are much the same, and though I might write 'blood, blood, blood' all over the page the paper would not be stained nor would I bleed. Philippe Jacottet, 'Chant d'en bas

I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. Pablo Neruda, "The Dead Woman," The Captain's Verses

Le gustaría llevar una vida como ésa? ¿Ser la amante del zar, con su propio palacio, pero prisionera del amor? —En el amor siempre se es prisionero —las palabras le salieron de los labios como si las hubiera pronunciado miles de veces, pero ella ni siquiera sabía hasta ese momento que las pensaba

my problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity

Content, huh? Ha! Where's the container?

If only," he said. "If only there was some way to feel that way all the time." "You couldn't," I said, without thinking. "Regression to the mean. The extraordinary always ends up feeling ordinary. Do it for long enough and it'd just be noise." "You may be right. But I hope you're not. Somewhere out there, there's a thing so amazing that you can devote your life to it and never forget how special it is.

A sense of purpose is a wonderful tonic for anxiety.

Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both everything and nothing. The signals are everywhere.

Everybody could be doing something better without their lives. Name me one person who is doing the best, most righteous thing with their life this very minute.

cahoots being a legal term in Wyoming, see cahooting in the first degree, intent to cahoot, and so on.

A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB

The name of the child, "Jesus," is a Greek translation of the Hebrew, "Joshua

Du bist gerade erst gegangen und schon erscheinen unsere gemeinsamen Orte so viel schöner und bedeutungsvoller. Wieso wolltest du all das nur hinter dir lassen? Was rede ich, meine Welt ist doch nicht bedeutungsvoller, sondern leerer. Was nützt der atemberaubende Blick aufs Meer schon ohne dich? Gar nichts.

But really I wanted to burn these childhood artifacts, because the lines -meant for escape- served as a reminder instead. I wanted to burn my memories.