Quotes About Meaning

Nothing is just anything.

Once we use the word spiritual, we don't have to explain anymore, because it belongs to the Church then, and no one can question it.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it

Everything means something, Lyra said severely. We just have to find out how to read it.

Good intentions never wrote a story worth reading.

The meaning of one thing is its connection with another;

once or twice the two of them shared a glimpse of meaning that felt as if a shaft of sunlight had struck through clouds to light up a majestic line of great hills in the distance—something far beyond, and never suspected.

the particular plant longed for by the wife, which was originally parsley, was a well-known abortifacient.

St. Augustine had said, "Angel is the name of their office, not of their nature. If you seek the name of their nature, it is spirit; if you seek the name of their office, it is angel; from what they are, spirit, from what they do, angel.

I'm with the fool in the psalm. You thought we could get on without you; no – you didn't care whether we got on without you or not. You just got up and left. So that's what we're doing, we're getting on.

Who was that?" said Will, trembling, facing the two angels. "That was Metatron," said Balthamos.

I thought physics could be done to the glory of God, till I saw there wasn't any God at all

Much ingenious interpretation of story is little more than seeing pleasing patterns in the sparks of a fire, but it does no harm.

Everything means something," Lyra said severely. "We just have to find out how to read it.

What is he? A friend or an enemy? The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.

Take the anchor, there. The first meaning of that is hope, because hope holds you fast like an anchor so you don't give way.

Beacause if they think the Dust is bad, it must be good.

When you write a story you're not trying to prove anything or demonstrate the merits of this case or the flaws in that. At its simplest, what you're doing is making up some interesting events, putting them in the best order to show the connections between them and recounting them as clearly as you can.

maybe from other experiences as well, that there are more ways than one, more than two, of seeing things and perceiving their meanings.

When I'm writing, I'm more conscious of the sound, actually, than the meaning. I know what the rhythm of the sentence is going to be before I know what the words are going to be in it.

Había pensado acaso que la vida carecía de significado y de propósito por haber desaparecido Dios? Sí, lo había pensado. - ¡Pero el presente existe! Mary Malone

Maybe it means nothing. It just is. Everything means something, Lyra said severely. We just have to find out how to read it.

No tenía más familia que aquella, e incluso hubiera podido pasar por su verdadera familia, si Lyra hubiera sabido qué significaba eso

La respuesta emocional del lector es algo muy valioso. Los relatos tienen que ganarse sus propias lágrimas, sin hurtarlas de ningún otro sitio.