Quotes About Meaning

A good lenten answer! I can tell thee where that saying was born, of 'I fear no colours.

What do you read, my lord? Words, words, words.

Why, stand-under and under-stand is all one.

To-morrow re than an illusion. It's like a poor actor who struts and worries for his hour on the stage and then is never heard from again. Life is a story told by an idiot, full of noise and emotional disturbance but devoid of meaning.

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other word would smell as sweet.

L'amore, com'io penso, e la ingenuità d'una lingua impacciata, pur senza parlare, sanno significare molto.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

The query: "At Auschwitz, tell me, where was God?" And the answer: "Where was man?

One of the century's most famous intellectual pronouncements comes at the beginning of The Myth of Sisyphus: "There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy

Aushwitze itself remains explicable. The most profound statement yet made upon Aushwitz was not a statement at all, but a response. The query, 'At Aushwitze, tell me, where was God?' And the answer: 'Where was man?

Somehow, even the slightest words and phrases of Sappho yield her voice.

Stories give people the feeling that there is meaning, that there is ultimately an order lurking behind the incredible confusion of appearances and phenomena that surrounds them. This order is what people require more than anything else.

a word we make to mean whatever we want it to mean. Spirituality, Eugene averred, was "Christ, the God-revealing Christ, who is behind and in all of this living.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

I thought, the way to love is through suffering. Who had said that? Did it mean anything or was it just the usual talk?

Si poteva sprecare l'intera giovinezza delineando differenze di nessun conto tra un obbligo morale e un altro.

life holds only two or three things worth the having, and if you possess them the rest don't matter, and if you do not possess them the rest are useless.

Well, so what? I may be a idiot, but most of the time, anyway, I tried to do the right thing—an dreams is jus dreams, ain't they? So whatever else has happened, I am figgerin this: I can always look back an say, at least I ain't led no hum-drum life. You know what I mean?

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.

I must thank the Hon. Gentleman for making me acquainted with the word "outwith," with which I had not previously had the pleasure of making acquaintance. For the benefit of English Members I may say that it is translated "outside the scope of." I thought it was a misprint at first.

It meant that to create was a fundament, to appreciate, a supplement.

But in the language of poetry, where every word is weighed, nothing is usual or normal. Not a single stone and not a single cloud above it.

So what can they tell us, the writers of dream books, the scholars of oneiric signs and omens, the doctors with couches for analyses— if anything fits, it's accidental, and for one reason only, that in our dreamings, in their shadowings and gleamings, in their multiplings, inconceivablings, in their haphazardings and widescatterings at times even a clear-cut meaning may slip through.