Quotes About Meaning

and your grandfather said, 'Suffer little children to come unto Me': and what did He mean by that? how, if He meant that little children should need to be suffered to approach Him, what sort of earth had He created; that if they had to suffer in order to approach Him, what sort of Heaven did He have?)

who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?

Any live man is better than any dead man.

qué falso puede ser el más profundo de todos los libros cuando se pretende aplicarlo a la vida.

Why are you Anse. I would think about his name until after a while I could see the word as a shape, a vessel, and I would watch him liquify and flow into it like cold molasses flowing out of the darkness into the vessel, until the jar stood full and motionless: a significant shape profoundly without life like an empty door frame

Suicide iss just for the body," the German said. "The body settles nothing. It iss of no importance. It iss just to be kept clean when possible.

We can invest trifles with a tragic profundity, which is the world.

Adoro los silencios incómodos, ¿usted no, doctor? Todo lo que implican. Llenan el vacío con la fuerza de las palabras no dichas. Porque lo que no se dice a veces es más inquietante.

If there is a God what the hell is He for?

Die Dinge, auf die es im Leben wirklich ankommt, kann man nicht kaufen.

the face of Christ in your van der Goes, no one could call that a lie.

Nihil cavum neque sine signo apud Deum.

With nothing of value to show the fact will disappear. There is no fact but value.

every work of art is a work of perfect necessity.

resurrection a dispensable preoccupation for one who had not yet lived.

Are you - are you sad? - No. But your - your songs are sad. - My songs are of time and distance. The sadness is in you. Watch my arms. There is only the dance. These things you treasure are shells.

Armitage smiled, a smile that meant as much as the twitch of some insect's antenna.

This was nothing like Tokyo, where the past, all that remained of it, was nurtured with a nervous care. History there had become a quantity, a rare thing, parceled out by government and preserved by law and corporate funding. Here it seemed the very fabric of things, as if the city were a single growth of stone and brick, uncounted strata of message and meaning, age upon age, generated over the centuries to the dictates of some now-all-but-unreadable DNA of commerce and empire.

The old man reminded Tito of those ghost-signs, fading high on the windowless sides of blackened buildings, spelling out the names of products made meaningless by time.

But she still didn't get what the United States did either, in Wilf's world. He made it sound like the nation-state equivalent of Conner, minus the sense of humor, but she supposed that might not be so far off, even today.

I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'.

I do think that art that doesn't communicate is useless.

What's in a book, is not what an author thought he put into it, it's what the reader get out of it.

The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.