Quotes About Meaning

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

PROMISES means EVERYTHING but after they are broken SORRY means NOTHING

If you write a book and nobody reads it, does the book exist? Stories in books, characters and things, you know, like places and monsters or whatever the writer has made up and written down, they only really come alive when we read them. Otherwise it's just a jumble of squiggles on bits of paper.

And a realization for Skinner, she still has his scarf, inside her mountaineering jacket, red wool at her neck. Some meaning there related to the kiss, but in a code he cannot unscramble. A tether is what it feels like, his scarf around her neck, preventing either of them from falling off the mountain alone.

Elus olulisi otsuseid on tegelikult kolm: kellega koos kavatsete oma elu elada, kuidas te kavatsete seda elada ja mille nimel.

There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.

There is no point and that there doesn't have to be a point. We don't need a reason. As long as it's fun.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter - in the eye.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

I mean that memory and association come before comprehension, so that one ought to know all good things—fa—with familiarity before one can understand, because understanding does not make one love. Oh! one does that before, and, when the first little gleam, little bit of a sparklet of the meaning does come, then it is so valuable and so delightful.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.

You can't translate something that was never in a language in the first place.

The first "young man" symbolizes "saving life and losing it," the second "losing life to save it." At this stage in the story, however, without knowing the end, the episode of the young man represents a mystery. All we know is that everything has gone sour.

What is the meaning of Resurrection? ...is it not the exorcism of crippling unbelief, which renders us dead in life (Mark 9:22) rather than alive in our dying (8:35)?

interpretation is a conversation between text and reader, requiring not detachment but involvement. This conversation is often called the "hermeneutic circle." Our life situation will necessarily determine the questions we bring to the text, and hence strongly influence what it says and means to us. At the same time, the text maintains its own integrity, and we owe it to ourselves and the text to try to enter into its world as much as possible.

We lie to each other all the time. Whatever we say, it doesn't mean anything." "I'll believe you," she said.

Life's major pursuit is not knowing self . . . but knowing God. . . . Unless God is the major pursuit of our lives, all other pursuits are dead-end streets, including trying to know ourselves. CHARLES R. SWINDOLL (B. 1934)

Jackson," he mused. "Not a name either one of you was born to." Lizzie answered, "No. But beyond a certain point, names become accessories. We swap them out as needed, for the sake of peace. You understand?" "I understand. Though I disagree. Names aren't hats to change a look, or a suit to be swapped at a whim. Words mean things." "Then we must agree to disagree.

I've got a woman. A crazy woman." "Sounds like the start of a country song to me," I said.

What happened back there? That was … it was magic, wasn't it?" "Either magic, or that woman is so crazy she can fly.