Quotes About Meaning

All human beings should try and learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. —JAMES THURBER

Rhyia leaned over and pushed a fallen strand of his hair back over one of his ears. 'Take it.' 'You want me to have it?' he asked, just to be sure. He wondered what he'd done that was worthy of being commemorated with a present. 'I thought you could use a little nonsense,' she told him, which worried him a little.

Why should death discriminate between age and youth, you mean?" he asked calmly. "Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.

Perhaps you could just allow yourself to be rescued,' Cardan says. 'For once.

Anything designed to be inoffensive isn't worth your time -- life itself is pretty offensive, ending as it does with death.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.

Cu cât îi este mai josnic? via?a cu atât ?ine omul la ea, via?a lui e atunci un protest, o r?zbunare de toate clipele.

To begin with, I hold that there is never an end; everything of which our life is composed, pictures and books as much as anything else, is a means only, in the sense that the work of art exists in the body of the movement of life. It may be a strong factor of progress and direction, but we cannot say that it is the end or reason of things, for it is so much implicated with them ; and when we are speaking of art we suddenly find that we are talking of life all the time.

I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.

She'd swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything.

The words "I´m sorry" felt like an insult. You said "I´m sorry" when you bumped against someone´s supermarket trolley. There need to be bigger words.

Perhaps there were no answers to questions like that. Perhaps nothing was ever "meant to be." There was just life, and right now, and doing your best. Being a bit "bendy.

The bills would keep on coming, no matter what else was happening in your life and that was good because it gave you a purpose. You worked so you could pay them. You rested on the weekends and generated more bills. Then you went back to work to pay for them. That was the reason for getting up tomorrow. That was the meaning of life.

It felt pointless celebrating without other people, as if the whole objective had always been to perform the festivities for an audience.

It felt like it was all still there, that time of their lives, somewhere metaphysical, accessible through some magical means other than memory.

You suppose you are the trouble But you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door But you are the key that opens it Rumi Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it. George Carlin

Listeria, wisteria. Ha. Funny words. She

She hadn't told anyone. She'd swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything.

never understood what that plate represented: Disrespect. Disregard. Contempt.

Move it along, mate. A fast funeral is a good funeral. Ron is not completely sure what the word 'misogynist' means. He keeps forgetting to look it up in the dictionary because he doesn't have a dictionary.

bemused. "You wouldn't

word and its implications from every angle.

Jane, nice to meet you! I'm Amabella's mum, and I have Jackson in Year 2. That's Amabella, by the way, not Annabella. It's French. We didn't make it up.

My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.