Quotes About Meaning

The particularity of the cross] fragments our attempt to hold it as an integral whole, administer and control it at our whim. This is what scandal means; it disrupts an expected fulfillment and enclosure of meaning.

Johnson odiaba y temía la vida en un pueblo. Las calles cerradas y silenciosas lo sumían en la desesperación. En un pueblo, su presencia no encontraba reflejo. La soledad se volvía insoportable. La ciudad tenía sentido porque hacía soportable la soledad.

Arthur is smart and he has words, but so do I. I stood there arguing with him. Then, in the middle of a sentence, he said sharply, "I'll decide when the vacation is over." I stared at him. I don't know what he saw in my face, but his own softened perceptibly. Very quietly he said, "It doesn't mean what it meant when you were young.

She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last?

The essay becomes an exercise in the meaning and value of watching a writer conquer their own sense of threat to deliver themself of their wisdom.

And it was Rumpelstiltskin who chose the name for Della's baby girl. He called her Abigail, which means "a father's joy.

Neputând gândi moartea, nu ne raman, dupa cum s-ar parea, decat doua solutii: sau sa gandim asupra mortii, in jurul mortii, cu privire la moarte, sau sa ne gandim la altceva decat la moarte, de exemplu la viata. Prima solutie ineaca problema in oceanul generalitatilor inofensive. Dupa cum vom vedea, eufemia si perifraza sunt, fata de indicibil, ceea ce aceasta filosofie marginala e fata de incomprehensibil: o art? de a tr?nc?ni pe lâng? subiect.

On peut vivre sans philosophie, sans musique, sans joie et sans amour. Mais pas si bien.

Incluso la creencia en Dios, ya que de ella se trata, no es verdaderamente una creencia completa sino que implica un conjunto de representaciones relativas a lo que viene después de la vida; en consecuencia, a algo sobrenatural, a una escatología; y es por ello que una religión que no anunciara nada a los hombres en lo concerniente a una vida ulterior no sería una verdadera religión.

The world itself is but a series of footnotes to a vast unfinished masterpiece.

I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes

Words without experience are meaningless.

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A minha vida está justificada, justificada, justificada!, continuou a gritar, sem compreender que a vida, por si só, entrega-se a nós sem nenhum tipo de condição, e não há necessidade de justificá-la por meios especialmente mirabolantes.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.

When he who hears does not know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks does not know what he himself means, that is philosophy

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.

If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.

I had fulfilled my purpose.

She taught me that it was a good thing to love more than just my boy, Ethan, opening my eyes to the fact that I'd actually loved many people in my lives, that loving humans was my ultimate purpose.

It cannot be a dog's purpose to understand what people want because it is impossible.

Of all the things I'd ever done, making Senora laugh seemed the most important. It was, I reflected, the only thing that gave my life any purpose.

Now what? Was I to be reborn over and over, forever? Could a dog have more than one purpose? How was that possible?