Quotes About Meaning

Na vida nós somos artistas de uma peça de teatro absurdo escrita por um Deus absurdo.

A verdade não faz sentido, a grandeza do mundo me encolhe. Aquilo que provavelmente pedi e finalmente tive, veio, no entanto me deixar carente como uma criança que anda sozinha pela terra. Tão carente que só o amor de todo o universo por mim poderia me consolar e me cumular, só um tal amor que a própria célula-ovo das coisas vibrasse com o que estou chamando de um amor. Daquilo a que na verdade apenas chamo mas sem saber-lhe o nome.

During his hours of bitter loneliness, when he became utterly aware and sensible, he understood the ultimate meaning of being alone. He realized how wrong his sense of values had been and how he had failed to see that the simple, the natural, the homely, the unpretentious things in life are what really matter.

Every organized religion created after the dawn of agriculture placed a premium on human destiny. Thus, every religion in the world today, with the exception of those rare outliers among indigenous peoples, was created to answer a question the very asking of which betrays a bias so vast we can scarcely see around it: What is the meaning of human life?

Put simply, all religion is anthropocentric.

When you understand where the words dirty and holy intersect, you will have found the secret to everything.

Every effort to understand destroys the object studied in favor of another object of a different nature; this second object requires from us a new effort which destroys it in favor of a third, and so on and so forth until we reach the one lasting presence, the point at which the distinction between meaning and the absence of meaning disappears: the same point from which we began.

La littérature est parfaitement inutile, sa seule utilité est qu'elle aide à vivre.

A meaningful life is filled with contributions.

Quizá la felicidad sea eso, un instante donde estar, un momento cualquiera en el que las palabras sobran porque se necesitarían demasiadas para poder contarlo. Atreverse a tomarlo en su condensación, sin permitir que ellas, en su afán de narrarlo, le hagan perder su intensidad.

Un pacto tácito de frases hechas encadenadas, palabras que iban llenando el silencio, con el propósito de ni siquiera tener que hablar del silencio.

De allí somos, de donde florece o da fruto cada palabra.

La extrañaba incluso más que a Ana, tal vez porque echar de menos a alguien vivo tiene más sentido que hacerlo con un muerto. La muerte pide resignación, la ausencia no.

modo: "Lo cierto es que las catedrales no significan nada especial para mí. Nada. Catedrales. Es algo que se ve en la televisión a última hora

Sometimes you read something and a thought that was floating around in your veins organizes itself into the sentence that reflects it.

context is not meaning.

The sadness lives in the recognition that a life cannot matter: Or; as there are billions of lives, my sadness is alive alongside the recognition that billions of lives never mattered.

Words work as release--well-oiled doors opening and closing between intention, gesture.

Yes, and in your mail the apology note appears referring to "our mistake." Apparently your own invisibility is the real problem causing her confusion. This is how the apparatus she propels you into begins to multiply its meaning. What did you say?

And of course you want the days to add up to something more than you came in and out of the sun and drank the potable water of your developed world--

The sadness lives in the recognition that a life cannot matter: Or; as there are billions of live, my sadness is alive alongside the recognition that billions of lives never mattered.

contain. "You must change your life." And if we hardly know ourselves, "what are we to do about this terribly significant business of other people?" Zuckerman poses the question in American

Dü?ünceler insan? öldürebilir ama dü?üncelerimiz u?runa ölmeye de?er.

Le mot 'chat' signifie 'la chose blanche qui ronronne' (lors du cours sur la Métaphysique des Espèces Naturelles, Collège de France 2013-2014)