Quotes About Meaning

The only thing that makes reality is death; then they hang it on a cross, kneel down and pray to it.

I have come to kno one thing without ay shadow of doubt: if anything in this universe reflects the fingerprint of God, it is the human heart

This is love with legs.' My father used to say that you can tell someone you love them until you're blue in the face, but until they see that walked out, they have no idea what it means. Hence, 'love with legs.'" A wide smile spread across her face. "Every day he'd climb out

No matter how screwed up the artist might be, there's still the chance that they can produce art that people like us hang on our wall and talk about long after their death. That the sum is greater than one part. That maybe one incident does not a life make.

All hearts stop, Annie. What matters is what you do with it while it's still pumping.

It was often what Charlie didn't say that spoke the loudest.

The point is not the fishing . . . the point is the kid.

table. Fill our conversations, our time, and our hearts. For"—Charlie pointed his voice in my direction—"they are the wellspring of life.

Belonging comes before identity. Ownership births purpose. Someone speaks whose we are, and out of that we become who we are. It's just the way the heart works.

we wrestle and search. But regardless of where we search and how we try to answer the question or what we ingest, inject, or swallow to numb the nagging, only the Father gets to tell us who we are. Period.

Proving once again that writing is an amazing transaction, and that the most powerful thing ever is a word.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

Suppose that this reading of history is correct. Today's creative elites are not just overwhelmingly secular but often hostile to the idea that transcendental goods have any meaning. Such is the reason to fear that well-made entertainments are as much as we can hope for. Great art requires a source of inspiration that the people who produce those entertainments are not tapping.

PURPOSE A major stream of human accomplishment is fostered by a culture in which the most talented people believe that life has a purpose and that the function of life is to fulfill that purpose.

Why is it a good thing to understand this movie so well? Because it will help you live a good life. Absorbing the deep meaning of the Nicomachean Ethics will also help you live a good life, but Groundhog Day will do it with a lot less effort. 35.

Taking the trouble out of life strips people of major ways in which human beings look back on their lives and say, "I made a difference.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

My Master of Arts degree means nothing at all to these monkeys and I have come to share their indifference.

We think only in signs.

What the pragmatist has his pragmatism for is to be able to say, Here is a definition and it does not differ at all from your confusedly apprehended conception because there is no practical difference.

Signs are of three classes, namely, Icons (or images), Indices, and Symbols. Article 6. An icon is a sign which stands for its object because as a thing perceived it excites an idea naturally allied to the idea that object would excite.

La vida, si no es una gloriosa aventura, no es nada».

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

I write to annoy God, to make Death laugh. I write because I can't get it right.