Quotes About Meaning

I was neither a grandfather, nor a father, nor even a husband. I didn't vote, I scarcely paid any taxes; I couldn't lay claim to the rights of a tax-payer, nor to those of an elector, nor even to the humble right to honour which twenty years of obedience confer on an employee. My existence was beginning to cause me serious concern. Was I a mere figment of the imagination?

The simplest, most indefinable quality had too much content, in relation to itself, in its heart.

But this richness was lost in confusion and finally was no more because it was too much.

Todavía no estoy en el infierno y ya tengo mis pequeñas costumbres de condenado.

El mundo de las explicaciones y razones no es el de la existencia.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance. I

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think . . . and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment—it's frightful—if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing.

Wiem bardzo dobrze, ?e nie chc? nic robi?: czyni? cokolwiek to stwarza? istnienie – a jest i tak wiele istnienia.

Bir çeÅŸit kesinlik... fiziksel bir kesinlik içindeyim, yetkin anlar?n olmad???n? duyuyorum. YürüdüÄŸüm zaman ta ayaklar?mda bile duyuyorum bunu. Her zaman, hatta uykuda bile duyuyorum, unutam?yorum. Bir anda anlam?? deÄŸilim bunu; hayat?m ÅŸu gün, ÅŸu saatte birdenbire deÄŸiÅŸti diyemem. Ama ÅŸu anda, sanki bu bana dün aç?klanm?? gibiyim. ÅžaÅŸk?n?m, tedirginim, al??am?yorum.

In my work, I want to create an understanding, not about what a painting looks like but about what a painting says.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig.

People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time-even when hard at work.

Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

it was a sly trick of God's to give a man work to do - it kept him from asking questions that God couldn't answer.

I hope there's some kind of morality in all my work.

Art, along with all work is the ordering of creation toward the intention of the creator.

I respect my work. But also I think it's very superficial.

People thrive by focusing on the question of who they really are - and connecting that to work that they truly love .

he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.

When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.

If you have a higher reason ... than just to make money... it will bring you longer fulfillment. And it won't feel like work.

The fastest way to disengage an employee is to tell him his work is meaningful only because of the paycheck.

What the work of art looks like isn't too important.