Quotes About Meaning

Perhaps death is a metaphor to remind us of a secret of life we failed to notice.

There is no name for what life should be, except what you did and what you do to my soul.

May life suddenly open on the wing of a butterfly fluttering over a rhyme for those who do not care about meaning.

One day I will become a bird and unsheathe my existence out of my void. When the two wings burn I'll near the truth and reincarnate from ash. I am the dialogue of dreamers. I turned away from my body and my self to complete my first journey toward meaning, but meaning burned me and disappeared. I am absence. The heavenly and the expelled from "Mural

Thus, lethargic letters, which carry no value when separate, build a house when they come together.

because words can encompass so much of the illusion of synonyms, and because metaphor is often subject to transformation: from "my homeland is not a suitcase" to "my homeland is a suitcase.

It is for the killer to kill, the fighter to fight, and the bird to sing. As for me, I halt my quest for figurative language. I bring my search for meaning to a complete stop because the essence of war is to degrade symbols and bring human relations, space, time, and the elements back to a state of nature, making us rejoice over water gushing on the road from a broken pipe.

Elohim is a homonym, and denotes God, angels, judges, and the rulers of countries,

In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary

Remember that it is not right to take a passage out of its context and to draw inferences from it. It is imperative to take into consideration the preceding and following statements in order to fathom the writer's meaning and purpose before making any deductions.

Life is full of sacrifices. Let them be for something.

We invent the world through language. The world occurs through language.

In London, I was unique. But down here, where I was a bungalow one minute and a funeral parlour the next, I felt as thought I was dissolving. I mean, if you're everywhere, you're nowhere. If you're everything, you're nothing.

Reality' would not only be boring without spirit; it would have no meaning whatsoever. No horror film can begin to capture the horror of such a vision: a world without spirit.

El marxismo es todavía el enemigo, padre. Pero los anglosajones tienen la iniciativa. -En sus labios, anglosajón significaba poderío angloestadounidense-. Su Europa irá lejos. Y con celeridad. Pero el mayor día para Europa todavía no ha amanecido.

Unfortunately Marx said that the important thing is not to understand the world but to change it. Poor man, he got it the wrong way round. The important thing is not to change the world too much until you understand it.

In their response to nihilism both Nietzsche and Heidegger rely on what is perhaps the central tenet of fascism in all its forms: the idea that particular human ecologies are the ultimate source of meaning.

It's not how much money we make that ultimately makes us happy between nine and five. It's whether or not our work fulfills us. Being a teacher is meaningful.

Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

She reached the door and added, 'Myfanwy says you drink too much rum. I think she was right.' 'It's my aftershave.' 'Well, then, you drink too much aftershave.

Thriving isn't about making life comfortable, fun and happy; it's about finding purpose and making our own unique contribution.

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.