Quotes About Meaning

Authentic art does not proclaim itself for it is achieved in silence.

I am not working for posterity, M. de Charlus replied, I am content with life, it is quite interesting enough, as poor Swann used to say.

It is not for nothing," he now assured himself, "that when people pass judgment upon their neighbour, their finding is based upon his actions. It is those alone that are significant, and not at all what we say or what we think.

Les êtres nous sont d'habitude si indifférents que, quand nous avons mis dans l'un d'eux de telles possibilités de souffrance et de joie pour nous, il nous semble appartenir à un autre univers, il s'entoure de poésie, il fait de notre vie comme une étendue émouvante où il sera plus ou moins rapproché de nous.

The reason why life may be judged to be trivial, although at certain moments to us, it seems so beautiful, is that we form our judgement ordinarily, not on the evidence of life itself, but of the mental images which preserve nothing of life and therefore, we judge it disparagingly.

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

There is something talismanic about familiar words.

Perhaps the solution is to have a little project every day. If there's no reason for you to get up in the morning it really doesn't matter if you are alive or dead.

En la ausencia de Dios, no nos queda otra cosa que vivir el doble, como robándole bocanadas a la muerte. Asentí.

Voglio dire che mancano le motivazioni. L'unica incrinatura seria consisteva nel fatto che il suo tempo interno e il tempo esterno non coincidevano. Ma dimmi, Rosa... non credi che se questo fosse un motivo sufficiente per togliersi la vita, il nostro paese sarebbe quasi completamente spopolato?

Aunque se desborde, la literatura es siempre un orden.

Después de todo Blanca, ¿no es ése el sentido del amor: la transformación? Míranos a Sofía, a ti y a mí. Lo bello de nuestra amistad es cuánto hemos transformado una en la otra.

No será, Camila, que al fin y al cabo el sentido de la vida es vivirla? No creo mucho en las respuestas filosóficas: todo se resume en vivirla entera y vivirla bien.

Whereas it (modern science) does say that we are an accident in an indifferent universe, it also says that we are a rare accident and thus not pointless.

There is an enormous difference between life and intelligent life.

O importante aqui é valorizar o processo, é o querer entender que atribui significado às nossas vidas. A essência fundamental do apetite humano é essa curiosidade pelo saber, qualquer que seja ele. A ciência é apenas um dos canais que utilizamos para conhecer o mundo e também a nossa essência.

El rabino Kushner escribió en uno de sus libros: "Yo creo que no es a morir a lo que teme la gente. Algo más desconcertante y trágico que la muerte nos asusta. Tenemos miedo de no haber vivido nunca, de llegar al final de nuestros días sintiendo que nunca estuvimos realmente vivos, que nunca entendimos de lo que realmente trata la vida... No

Just as all politics is local, all good history is personal.

He's not 'people,' Melia. He's a reporter.

Even the smallest thing should be done with reference to an end.

The old imposer it always making his blindness an excuse for disobedience.

Why do we as humans create art? Why is Richter's work regarded as art while a book of Dulux colour samples is not?

Salvation Is More About This Life than an Afterlife

When somebody says to me, "I don't believe in God," my first response is, "Tell me about the God you don't believe in." Almost always, it's the God of supernatural theism.