Quotes About Meaning

He knew these last lines by heart and mouthed them now in the darkness. My reason for life. Not living, but life. That was the touch. And she was his reason for life, and why he must survive.

There's an insult buried in there somewhere, but I can't quite see it.

One of the other patients at the respiratory clinic had used a phrase – 'managed decline' – and it had stuck with Rebus. To him, it seemed to sum up his whole life since retirement, and maybe even before.

He wondered what percentage of the world's art was actually kept in bank vaults and the like. Like unread books and unplayed music, did it matter that art went unseen?

Most information doesn't constitute a story. Think of a telephone directory: lots of information, strong cast, but a bit weak on narrative. What counts in a story is its meaning. And that's a very different concept from information.

After a rainstorm on a brilliant Sunday morning, 17 January 1960, at Lucerne's Municipal Maternity Clinic, Audrey gave birth to a sturdy, well-made son. He weighed nine and a half pounds, and they called him Sean. The Christian name was chosen because it was the Irish version of Audrey's half-brother's name, Ian, and because it meant 'Gift of God', the significance of which was not lost on all who knew the baby's mother.

What has he found who has lost God? And what has he lost who has found God?

Why did Justice really always wear a blindfold? I knew now. It was because the cunning bitch had dollar signs for eyeballs

started to ask some hard questions of myself. All this death, all this pain—was there a higher purpose behind it? Was it God's way of making me feel the destruction I'd caused within someone else's family?

Doesn't mean you'll actually get that hearing, but it's your first eligible date. Mine was December 5, 2013.

Abrir palabra por palabra el páramo, Abrirnos y mirar hacia la significante abertura, sufrir para labrar el sitio de la brasa, luego extinguirla y mitigar la queja del quemado.

History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.

Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.

The significance of the dwelling is in the dweller.

Un préstamo es las tijeras de la amistad La lengua de un hombre puede cortar su garganta La jaula no tiene valor sin el pájaro.

Las formas son vehículos e instrumentos, y los vehículos e instrumentos no pueden ser llamados buenos o malos sin un contexto.

Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means.

Según una definición del sufismo, este "es" vida humana.

Cuando una creencia se transforma en algo más que un instrumento, estás perdido. Permanecerás perdido hasta que aprendas para qué es realmente la 'creencia'.

Qué es lo que canto y qué es lo que mi tambor canta?

Hasta que puedas comprender lo ilógico y su significatividad, rehúye a los Sufis excepto para servicios limitados, precisos y manifiestos.

No es Sufismo si no cumple su función para ti. Un abrigo deja de serlo si no mantiene a un hombre abrigado.