Quotes About Meaning

Sometimes I wonder if people don't want freedom as much as they want meaning

To the suffering person, suffering is solely suffering. It is only for others, as a symbol, that suffering takes on any meaning or purpose. No one ever got lynched and thought, Well, at least this will lead inexorably to the civil rights movement. They just shook, suffered, screamed, and died. Pain is the least symbolic thing there is.

Watching this manic desire to make or grow or do 'something', that now seems to be consuming everybody, I do feel comforted to discover I'm not the only person on this earth who has no idea what life is for, nor what is to be done with all this time aside from filling it.

The shit is not the shit, he repeated solemnly, the pigeon is the shit.

Chuck functions here as a kind of authenticity fetish, allowing Hans (and the reader) the nostalgic pleasure of returning to a narrative time when symbols and mottoes were full of meaning and novels weren't neurotic, but could aim themselves simply and purely at transcendent feeling.

She noticed the most important thing of all, which is the dance lesson within the performance.

It was nostalgia for an era and a culture that had meant nothing to me in the first place, and perhaps because of this I was, in the eyes of my colleagues, cool, by virtue of not being like them.

I read this line about love: Without it, life is just 'doing time' I don't think she intended by this only romantic love, or familial love or really any kind of love in particular. At least, I read it in the Platonic sense: Love with a capital L, and ideal form and essential part of the universe.

I'm a sentimental humanist: I believe art is here to help, even if the help is painful—especially then.)

The clarity disturbed me. "She

The shit is not the shit (this was Mo's mantra), the pigeon is the shit.

Und allmählich glaube ich, dass Geburtsorte Zufälle sind, dass alles ein Zufall ist. Aber wenn du das glaubst, wohin kannst du dann noch? Was machst du dann? Was ist dann überhaupt noch wichtig? Während Samad mit verstörtem Blick diese Dystopie beschrieb, merkte Irie beschämt, dass das Land der Zufälle sich für ihre Ohren wie das Paradies anhörte. Wie Freiheit.

Watching this manic desire to make or grow or do "something," that now seems to be consuming everybody, I do feel comforted to discover I'm not the only person on this earth who has no idea what life is for, nor what is to be done with all this time aside from filling it.

what was that horrible late twentieth-century tautology? Proactive. More proactive in the face of the future.

He] looked troubled, for he had strayed too far from small talk right to the center of things--it happened more and more these days--and now must try to return to the things that didn't matter.

After all, you can storm the house of a novel like Barthes, rearranging the furniture as you choose, or you can enter on your knees, like the pilgrim Nabokov thought you were, and try to figure out the cunning design of the place - the house will stand either way.

In the university prospectus, an italic script over a picture of the Firth of Forth: Philosophy is learning how to die. Philosophy is listening to warbling posh boys, it is being more bored than you have ever been in your life, more bored than you thought it possible to be.

En este caso, el problema radica en que el hombre es un animal moral abandonado en un universo amoral y condenado a una existencia finita y sin otro significado que perpetuar el ciclo natural de la especie. Es imposible sobrevivir en un estado prolongado de realidad, al menos para un ser humano. Pasamos buena parte de nuestras vidas soñando, sobre todo cuando estamos despiertos.

Paslaptis vertinga tiek kiek žmon?s, d?l kuri? j? saugome

Yes. Love of man for woman—love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Nico: Prodigium effodio -- what does that mean again? Vision: Excavating monster. It's Latin. Nico: Damn, how much time did you spend in the library? Vision: I am a library.

It gave me something to feel about.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

I think life without spirit is in the dark, it is absurd.