Quotes About Meaning

Some words have a power that has nothing to do with supernatural forces. They resound in the heart and mind, they live long after the sounds of them have died away, they echo in the heart and the soul. They have power, and that power is very real.

Because Nicodemus is a murderous murdering murderer," I said.

You can have everything in the world, but if you don't have love, none of it means crap. - Thomas Raith

Graves aren't for the dead. They're for the loved ones the dead leave behind them. Once those loved ones have gone, once all the lives that have touched the occupant of any given grave had ended, then the grave's purpose was fulfilled and ended.

Kitai blinked slowly. Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous. We have a lot of words like that, Tavi said. They can mean more than one thing. That is stupid, Kitai said. It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing.

My answer came out at once. For me, chivalry isn't dead; it's an involuntary reflex. It could have been any woman asking for help, and I'd have said the same thing. It might have taken me a second or two longer, but I would have. For Elaine, there was no need to think about it for even that long. "I'll help.

It only means what you decide it means.

duty was a cold and barren shelter for a wounded spirit.

But dammit, words mean what they mean, even if everyone thinks they ought to mean something else.

now, young man. That's no small thing

Being called dangerous by a cat could mean a great many things, but it was generally delivered as something of a compliment.

People don't give a flying fuck if Uncle Jeffrey really forgives them for missing his last birthday party. They want to know that the world is a place where Uncle Jeffrey can and should forgive them.

She held up her hand, palm up—another one of those gestures, their meanings forgotten by everyone except for long-term wackjobs like Dresden.

I tried to be what I was meant to be, Father. It was never personal.

Shiro died. There was nothing pretty about it. There was no dignity to it. He'd been brutalized and savagely murdered - and he'd allowed it to happen to him in my place. But when he died, there was a small, contended smile on his face. Maybe the smile of someone who had run his course without wavering from it. Someone who had served something greater than himself. Who had given up his life willingly, if not gladly.

I think that you're dealing with a deity, or at least a demigod." "Jesus," I said. "No, this guy is Finnish, not Jewish," Bob said seriously.

All it would cost me was my soul. And no, I'm not talking about anything magical or metaphysical. I'm talking about the core of my identity, about what makes Harry Dresden who and what he is. If I lost those things, the things that define me, then what would be left?

It's a tradition," Grimm said. "Were traditions rational, they'd be procedures.

Everyone dies, honey," I said, very quietly. "Everyone. There's no 'if.' There's only 'when.' " I let that sink in for a moment. "When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

For the sake of one soul. For one loved one. For one life.' I called power into my blasting rod, and its tip glowed incandescent white. 'The way I see it, there's nothing else worth fighting a war for.

Freedom is only part of the story and half the truth.... That is why I recommend that the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast be supplanted by a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast. —VIKTOR E. FRANKL, Man's Search for Meaning

Clasping your hands together means you are serious. Clasping them around someone else's throat means you are very serious

Meaning creates emotion.

Nothing in this life will bring true meaning and happiness apart from God.