Quotes About Meaning

Collecting things like this, I realised, must have stitched together their broken world of rubble, made sense of a world disordered by war. And

I think of my chastened surprise when Mabel played with a paper telescope. She is real. She can resist the meanings humans give her. But the condor? The condor has no resistance to us at all. I stare at the attenuated, drifting image on the gallery screen. It is a shadow, a figure of loss and hope; it is hardly a bird at all.

Memory and love and magic. What happened over the years of my expeditions as a child was a slow transformation of my landscape over time into what naturalists call a local patch, glowing with memory and meaning.

there is a world of things out there – rocks and trees and stones and grass and all the things that crawl and run and fly. They are all things in themselves, but we make them sensible to us by giving them meanings that shore up our own views of the world.

They are all things in themselves, but we make them sensible to us by giving them meanings that shore up our own views of the world. In my time with Mabel I've learned how you feel more human once you have known, even in your imagination, what it is like to be not.

I'd have liked for him to say my name again, though. You know how it is when someone says your name really well, like it means something that makes the world a better place.

Not some sham family, politely avoiding having to care about one another, but people who would share a surname and the task of weaving a collective meaning into that name. People would support and protect and staunchly cherish one another.

I've always had a hard time figuring out what the moral of a story is supposed to be, and she was bound to know: She'd been to college.

It's only really appropriate in the event of a life-threatening emergency, "I love you." It means a different thing to us than it means to them. God knows what it means to them. God knows what it means to us.

And when Ambrose thought it over, it began to seem that really had been his subconscious project. Especially after he'd made contact with citizens of various countries who said they were Druhástranians. They all turned out to be people whose Druhástranianism was a nonviolent product of their alienation from every society currently known to them.

have liked for him to say my name again, though. You know how it is when someone says your name really well, like it means something that makes the world a better place. In Louis Chen's case, he sometimes says my name as if it were a lesser-known word for bacon.

Three creaks. She stepped three times. What is the meaning of it? Three creaks, three weeks? If she comes back for her shoes in three days, then I only need to empty them another three times. If it really is three weeks that were meant, what then. If three months, what then. Three years. That's why I had to write it down now. By then I may no longer believe I heard anything in Miri's room.

Life is also meaningful without being married', she had once told her mother, and marrying merely for the sake of it was, in her view, 'one of the greatest mistakes a woman can make

When the soul is dead and the body is the only concern, there's not much to get excited about...the only thing alive for me now is our literature.

2 El que entiende el significado de dar, no puede por menos que reírse de la idea del sacrificio.

5. Aquellos que quieren ver los testigos de la verdad en vez de los de la ilusión, piden simplemente poder ver en el mundo un propósito que le aporte significado y haga que tenga sentido. 2 Sin tu función especial, no tiene ningún significado para ti. 3 Sin embargo, se puede convertir en una mina tan rica e ilimitada como el Cielo mismo.

7 El sacrificio es un elemento tan esencial en tu sistema de pensamiento, que la idea de salvación sin tener que hacer algún sacrificio no significa nada para ti.

Without play at many levels of language, from phonemes to logical structures, a poem is merely prose with linebreaks added.

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.

And I too am not myself, hoping for refuge in a metaphor that will contain it all.

In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma.

Each person searches for the most beautiful jump which will be the final before leaving this world.

All the translations of a poem in all possible languages may add nuance to nuance and, by a kind of mutual retouching, by correcting one another, may give an increasingly faithful picture of the poem they translate, yet they will never give the inner meaning of the original.

Useful professions are clearly meant for the public, but those whose utility is more dubious can only justify their existence by assuming that the public is meant for them.