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Quotes About Meaning

At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this? And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?
~ Ilya Kaminsky
there is a tendency to forget that all science is bound up with human culture in general, and that scientific findings, even those which at the moment appear the most advanced and esoteric and difficult to grasp, are meaningless outside their cultural context.
~ Ilya Prigogine
Love is always a big deal.
~ Ilyasah Shabazz
The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without purpose.
~ Immanuel Kant
Você sobrevive a sua falta de sensibilidade e compreende que o vazio do mundo é, de certa maneira, obra sua.
~ Imre Kertesz
No escribo, luego no soy.
~ Imre Kertesz
el deber del hombre es ser feliz y si cumple con este deber en un grado ético elevado habrá llevado a cabo su cometido. Esto es del todo suficiente para una vida. ¿Es, además, «valioso»? Pero ¿qué es valioso salvo el conocimiento de la vida para nosotros mismos y el vivir para otro(s)?
~ Imre Kertesz
Você sobrevive a sua falta de sensibilidade e compreende que o vazio do mundo mundo é, de certa maneira, obra sua.
~ Imre Kertesz
Tell me, love, what I can't explain: Should I spend this short, horrid time with thoughts only, and alone know no love and give none? Must one think? Won't he be missed?
~ Unknown
Ausdruck ist Wahn
~ Unknown
For in his presence I grow silent, because the smallest words — yes, now, well, and, but, then, oh! — are so loaded, coming from me to him they have a hundred times their meaning
~ Unknown
I will tell you a terrible secret: language is punishment. Language must encompass all things and in it all things must again transpire according to guilt and the degree of guilt.
~ Unknown
Cui ii e dat sa traiasca un "de ce" indura aproape orice "cum".
~ Unknown
Estar permanentemente en las palabras, quieras o no, estar siempre vivo, lleno de palabras por la vida, como si las palabras estuviesen vivas, como si la vida fuera palabra.
~ Unknown
YaÅŸayacak bir niçin'i bulunan, hemen her nas?la dayanabilir.
~ Unknown
who I am, somehow that failed to be significant, at least in any way that matters.
~ Inglath Cooper
The Seventh Seal is one of the few films really close to my heart. Actually, I don't know why. It's certainly far from perfect. I had to contend with all sorts of madness, and one can detect here and there the speed with which it was made. But I find it even, strong, and vital.
~ Ingmar Bergman
It is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, genetaring and degenerating itself.
~ Ingmar Bergman
What matters most of all in life is being able to make that contact with another human. Otherwise you are dead, like so many people today are dead… But if you can take that first step toward communication, toward understanding, toward love, then no matter how difficult the future may be – and have no illusions, even with all the love in the world, living can be hellishly difficult – then you are saved. This is all that really matters, isn't it?
~ Ingmar Bergman
Johan: Jeg synes, livet er det værd, man lægger i det, hverken mere eller mindre. Jeg nægter at leve under evighedens synsvinkel. Scener fra et ægteskab
~ Ingmar Bergman
Mi vida ha sido algo completamente vacío, sin sentido. He cazado, he viajado, he convivido con todo el mundo. Pero todo ha sido inútil... Lo digo sin vergüenza y sin remordimiento, porque sé que la vida de los hombres está hecha así. Es precisamente por eso por lo que deseo utilizar mi aplazamiento: para realizar aunque sólo sea un único acto que tenga alguna significación.
~ Ingmar Bergman
Life has precisely the value one puts on it.
~ Ingmar Bergman
For example, there are thousands of different linguistic words for water. The meanings all refer to water – and the substance can literally be pointed at in case of linguistic difficulties.
~ Unknown
What, is THAT it? Is that all there is to life, to MY life, to MY existence? And even the young can
~ Unknown