Quotes About Meaning

Not every poem is a great poem, but there is something great in every poem.

FRASES A boa frase também é uma maneira de conviver com o inexprimível. Dá-se nome às coisas para domá-las.

El arte es el intento de explicar lo inefable.

La poesía es sobre todo el naufragio feliz de la memoria.

I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.

He who knoweth and understandeth Christ's life, knoweth and understandeth Christ Himself; and in like manner, he who understandeth not His life, doth not understand Christ Himself. And he who believeth on Christ, believeth that His life is the best and noblest life that can be, and if a man believe not this, neither doth he believe on Christ Himself.

We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning.

Then, although it was still the end of the story, I put it at the beginning of the novel, as if I needed to tell the end first in order to go on and tell the rest. It would have been simpler to begin at the beginning, but the beginning didn't mean much without what came after, and what came after didn't mean much without the end.

The word "fine" is the greatest abbreviation and obviously wrong.

We know we are very special," Davis writes in "Special": "Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?" (from James Wood's review of the FSG "Collected Stories of Lydia Davis")

Hoy por la mañana hizo vida, pero ahora está haciendo un poco de ganas de morir.

Não sei explicar mas o que quero dizer é que acreditar no homem não me deixa tão feliz como acreditar nessas histórias absurdas que os homens contam.

A busca nos caminhos da infância, "sou um arco em tuas mãos, Senhor. Distenda-o para que não apodreça". Os encontros e as despedidas, tanta estrada, tanta, teria que usar sapatos de ferro como os da rainha da história antiquíssima cruzando montanhas e vales, procurava alguma coisa - o quê?

Às vezes o silêncio é muito mais convincente do que a palavra.

Os encontros e as despedidas, tanta estrada, tanta, teria que usar sapatos de ferro como os da rainha da história antiquíssima cruzando montanhas e vales, procurava alguma coisa - o quê?!

The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity, saith the preacher. To which I add, especially husbands. No man is proof against the flatteries of love. At least I am not, and I am glad of it.

It is only by human experiences that we can interpret the Divine.

Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.

We must rejoice when love is great, and pardon its excess, for love is the staff of life, and life without love is life in vain.

When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

Learn to trust yourself and you will create a meaningful life.

When you have a dream and are committed to achieving it, your life takes on new meaning. By unfolding a dream, you discover what makes you happy and brings you joy.