Quotes About Meaning

(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

Death is as casual and often as unexpected as birth. It is as difficult to define grief as joy. Each is finite. Each will fade.

We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death.

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

The body's ills are the least of ills, for they end only in death, which is but a little thing. But if the spirit dies, then all is lost.

Death is death. Whether you die smiling or with tears in your eyes, it amounts to the same thing. A whole heap of nothing

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.

The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life.

Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

For the living, death is thievery.

Now he understood. This was death. Death was a silence that gave back no answer.

Art is a protest against death.

The friend who cares makes it clear that whatever happens in the external world, being present to each other is what really matters. In fact, it matters more than pain, illness, or even death.

You think this necklace is a tailsman?" "Yep, I'm not stupid Leif. I hang with Death, ya know.

Death is never sweet, not even if it is suffered for the highest ideal.

Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.