Quotes About Meaning

Odio usar la palabra ´superarse´: se oye una prángana y además cursi. Solamente las prostitutas se superan: el dinero las hace más y más y más putas.

Qué es una vida de verdad? ¿Cuando vas a la escuela? ¿Cuando tienes trabajo?¿Cuando vas al trabajo y dejas a tus hijos en la escuela? ¿Cuando tienes las suficientes fotos para llenar un álbum? Cuando puede contarla, supongo.

Cuando alguien me decía: Thank you, yo contestaba: Of nothing. Por eso cuando Eric me dijo en voz bajita: You look pretty american, juré que era un piropo doble. O sea que me veía bonita y gringuita. Qué pendeja.

Desde cuándo los sentimientos meramente irracionales precisan de razones para joderle a uno la existencia?

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real.

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

Afterwards, when it's all over, you meet God. What do you say to God?

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

I have a story that will make you believe in God.

The world isn't just the way it is. It's how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone.

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?

We must do the same with death in our lives: resolve it, give it meaning, put it into context, however hard that might be.

An epic simplicity

Kalau kita, para warga negara, tidak memberikan dukungan kepada seniman-seniman kita, berarti kita telah mengorbankan imajinasi kita di altas realitas yang kejam, dan pada akhirnya kita jadi tidak percaya pada apapun, dan mimpi-mimpi kita tidak lagi berarti.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for?

The word isn't just the way it is. It is how we understand it, no? And in understanding something, we bring something to it, no? Doesn't that make life a story?

A világ nem egyszer?en olyan, amilyen. Olyan, amilyennek felfogjuk, nem? S azzal, hogy valamit felfogunk, valamit hozzá is teszünk, nem igaz? Nem válik-e ettÅ'l történetté az élet is?

What of God's silence? I think it over. I add: An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose.

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals of the story without animals?

Nem! Nem! Nem! A szenvedésem igenis számít. Élni akarok. Muszáj belekevernem az életemet a világegyetem életébe. Az élet egy kémlelÅ'nyílás, az egyetlen pici út egy végtelenségbe – hogyan hagyhatnám ki ezt a kurta, sz?k pillantást, amit a világra vethetek? Nekem csak ez jutott!

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.