Quotes About Meaning

Smith. Jones. Who the fuck cares? It's not your real name anyway.

God created you to be—a gift of His love to others.

The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart" How astonishing it is that language can almost mean, and frightening that it does not quite.

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.

May you find what you are searching for, my friend. – I already have and lost it in the finding.

Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.

Love is the answer At least for most of the questions in my heart Why are we here and where do we go And how come it's so hard

The only truth is music.

The Buddhist approach to this collective suffering is to turn toward it. We understand that genuine happiness and meaning will come through tending to suffering. We overcome out own despair bby helping other to overcome theirs.

It is only life that has meaning, not death,

It makes absolutely no difference in the scheme of things whether all but a handful of people live or die. No more than the importance of a single flower, or blade of grass, or vegetable, or bird. It would make no difference if those men who held that ancient pass or that equally ancient fort had, instead, died of disease or old age or in a saloon fight. But it made a difference that they died where they did. It mattered. It justified their whole existence.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Remember that the Tarot is a great and sacred arcanum - its abuse is an obscenity in the inner and a folly in the outer. It is intended for quite other purposes than to determine when the tall dark man will meet the fair rich widow.

Shinju in Japanese literally means "inside the heart." More fully, it implies that if the heart were cut open, there would be found only devotion to one's lover; thus, "revealing-the-heart death.

Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.

Aimlessly It pounds the shore. White and aimless signals. No One listens to poetry. — from "Thing Language

A poet is a time mechanic not an embalmer.

Freedom is a two-edged sword of which one edge is liberty and the other responsibility, on which both edges are exceedingly sharp; and which is not easily handled by casual, cowardly or treacherous hands.

rituals, like burning paper money... all fake, just something we do to comfort ourselves or for others to see.

Poetry is in rude health. People are turning to it more and more to try and make sense of the world we are living in. In these particular times, poetry finds its place" Wise words from

The strangeness will wear off and I think we will discover the deeper meanings in modern art.

What does it mean?" Emily said, in a low, panicked voice: "What does it mean if a rainbow comes before rain?

Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.