Quotes About Meaning

They say that death kills you, But death doesn't kill you. Boredom and indifference kill you.

I've seen my own death in dreams like this and it's helped me appreciate life more. I've also seen my own life in dreams and it's helped me appreciate death more.

It has served us well, this myth of Christ.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

Things are simple when you're going to die.

The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?

When Jesus wanted to explain to his disciples what his death was all about, he didn't give them a theory, he gave them a meal.

In a world where the dead have returned to life, the word" trouble' loses much of its meaning.

We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.

If you know how to live, even death is good news

There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.

Death is meaningless to the living because they are living, and meaningless to the dead… because they are dead.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

Such a display of death - how could it be considered a victory?

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

When we exist, death is not yet present, and when death is present, then we do not exist.

Leisure without literature is death and burial alive.

Poets are interested mostly in death and commas.

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.