Quotes About Meaning

It was an attraction born of close quarters, and false familiarity. It meant absolutely nothing. Yet she drove home one-handed, the fingertips of her free hand gently touching her mouth, whispering, "Beloved.

I like the word 'evil'. Scramble it a little and you will get 'vile' and 'live'. 'Good', on the other hand, is just a command to 'go do'.

Now, I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.

Most of the time, the words that were not written were the ones you needed the most.

The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed.. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet? Love isn't the only word that fails. Hate does, too.

I think it is a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is. —Vladimir Nabokov

See, unlike the rest of the free world, I didn't get here by accident. And if your parents have you for a reason, then that reason better exist. Because once it's gone, so are you.

It's not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years.

The problem isn't with rock lyrics, it's with the fabric of this society itself." Ann

Saugumas-tik miražas; vargu ar turi reikšm?s, kad esi pririštas, jei kitas lyno galas atsirišo.

Could love be not grand gestures or empty vows, not promises meant to be broken, but instead a paper trail of forgiveness?

But it is exactly because I was a writer that I could never do it. The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers. What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an alphabet?

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

I'm very sorry - the only words that could not rework into anything but what they signified.

To live was always a conditional verb.

Your name, Minka. Short for Wilhelmina. You know what it means? Chosen protection.

If you ask me, music is the language of memories.

Eis a minha opinião: não me parece que as religiões se baseiem em mentiras, mas também não me parece que se baseiem em verdades. Acho que surgem devido ao que as pessoas precisam na altura.

And you know I don't believe in God." She moves, blocking my path. "That doesn't mean He doesn't believe in you," she says. My scar tingles. My left eye starts

Does it even mean anything to him anymore? If you say the same words over and over, do they become so bleached that there's no color left in them?

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.' – VOLTAIRE, FOR AND AGAINST

The reason it's important to believe in something, he said, is because you can.

I don't think religions are based on lies, but I don't think they're based on truths, either. I think they come about because of what people need at the time that they need them. Like the World Series player who won't take off his lucky socks, or the mother of the sick child who believes that her baby can sleep only if she's sitting by the crib – believers need, by definition, something to believe in.