Quotes About Meaning

My writing is not just all facts and voices. I strive to create a text that works as a sign, pointing out undercurrents that lie beneath the facts.

Real or not, when a person denies God, they often try and fill that higher power void with something else.

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a choice. You can give in to the void: the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs, constricts your ability to think or even breathe. Or you can try to find meaning.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.

Hopefully if you create something fine, people will relate to it, so you're communicating with people, and you're not in a void. On the other hand, because you're always creating and transforming, art always separates you - always.

It is not a life at all. It is a reticence, in three volumes.

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will.

Carl von Rokitansky is one of the founders of scientific medicine and systematized it, looking at what the clinical symptoms mean. The medicine we practice today, which is infinitely more sophisticated, is Rokitansky's medicine.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

Anybody who thinks that getting a communication from a voter in your district is spam - that guy is pork. Roast pork unless he changes his point of view.

The answer is that if God exists, he doesn't seem to mind if you believe in him or not.

You cannot mean everything to all segments of the markets. You cannot have a brand straddling too many meanings.

I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess, if I had a cause, it would be education.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

If I can make someone laugh while sending a message, that's the best lesson.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

To me, the word 'decadent' is so difficult to use; it's a very sensitive word, in a way.

This sentence contradicts itself - no actually it doesn't.

It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.