Quotes About Meaning

Did it matter that we both drank coffee at night and both happened to go to Barcelona the summer after our senior year? In the long view, was it such a revelation that we were both ticklish and that we both liked dogs more than cats? Really, weren't these facts just placeholders until the long view could truly assert itself? We were painting by numbers, starting with the greens. Because that happened to be our favorite color. And this, we figured, had to mean something.

But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.

I want my books to have their own shelves," you said, and that's how I knew it would be okay to live together.

Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love. That

To feel such a longing for his own life, even as he's living it—he wonders what that means.

What a wonderful word, future. Of all the abstractions we can articulate to ourselves, of all the concepts we have that other animals do not, how extraordinary the ability to consider a time that's never been experienced. And how tragic not to consider it. It galls us, we with such a limited future, to see someone brush it aside as meaningless, when it has an endless capacity for meaning, and an endless number of meanings that can be found within it.

How can something that doesn't have a form, doesn'r have a definition, doesn't have words-how can it have such weight? And yet, there's the need to swim.

Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

Whenever I look at it, it makes me happy. That's the moral of the story. That's it.

I know the odds are all against us and I know you feel this way too So I know I would rather die trying to know if I could mean something to you

É como se, ao amar alguém, essa pessoa se tornasse sua razão. E talvez seja o inverso; talvez eu tenha me apaixonado por ela porque preciso de uma razão.

Appropriate. The word is a well-dressed cage, used to capture the truth and hang it in a room that no one ventures into.

I am not kissing her because I want to, and I am not kissing her because I need to - I am kissing her for a reason that transcends want and need, that feels elemental to our existence, a molecular component on which our universe will be.

It's just extraordinary to me that the story I write in relative isolation can then connect with so many people, and that the meaning I put into it somehow translates into meaning for a reader. I don't think you can ever expect that.

Lo único que sé es que quiero algo auténtico. Sé que soy joven y que «auténtico» no significa «para siempre», [...] pero quiero sentir que la vida importa.

Most of the time when we think we're looking for death, we're really looking for love -Rhiannon

And what I want to tell him is that now I understand why people want to share a life with someone else. I see what all the fuss is about. It's not about sex or being in a couple when you hang out with other couples. It's not for ego or gratification or fear of loneliness. It's about this, whatever this is. -Rhiannon

That's all we ask of you. Make more than dust.

it's as if when you love someone, they become your reason. and maybe I've gotten it backward, maybe it's just because I need a reason that I find myself falling in love

And I think that the ultimate way you and I get lucky is if you have some success early in life, you get to find out early it doesn't mean anything. Which means you get to start early the work of figuring out what does mean something -- David Foster Wallace

But the sort of—this confusion of permissions, or this idea that pleasure and comfort are the, are really the ultimate goal and meaning of life. I think we're starting to see a generation die … on the toxicity of that idea.

It doesn't do any good to say, 'This is what it means.' When you are spoon fed a film, people instantly know what it is. I like films that leave room to dream.

When you finish anything, people want you to then talk about it. And I think it's almost like a crime. A film or a painting – each thing is its own sort of language and it's not right to try to say the same thing in words. The words are not there. The language of film, cinema, is the language it was put into, and the English language – it's not going to translate. It's going to lose.

It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let things keep happening.