Quotes About Meaning

Poetry is telling something to someone.

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.

What people really seek, even if they project it sometimes onto outer objects, is the feeling of being alive.

The philosophical system with which we try to interpret contents of the unconscious is open to still more, and that is the way in which an interpretation will not have a destructive effect. One should keep to what is possible and infer at the same time that there is a lot more to it so that there is room for growth.

The sophisticated, complex art surrounding the Neolithic goddess is a shifting kaleidoscope of meaning: she personified every phase of life, death and regeneration. She was the creator from which all life - human, plant and animal, arose - and to whom everything returned. Her role extended far beyond eroticism.

Precise language surprises like a dancer's extra second of stillness in mid-air; word and experience come together in an irreproducible moment of epiphanic delight. The next time the word appears, it may have a different feel or color or emphasis. Contexts change; usage changes; assigned meaning shifts; words accrue rings of history like trees and become more dense with life.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Some people are still alive only because they find being dead more boring than being alive.

The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.

The irony of the human condition is that it is the narrow gate to life. Few find it because they are too fearful to look

Profit has to be a means to other ends rather than an end in itself.

Price ain't merely about numbers. It's a satisfying sacrifice.

Man shall not live by bread alone.

What keeps me motivated is not the food itself but all the bonds and memories the food represents.

Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.

Beneatha: You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means... for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something... ... Asagai: It means... it means One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

Religion is a form of nourishment. It is difficult to appreciate the flavor and food-value of something one has never eaten.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

The body needs food, warmth and water, but your heart needs more.

Oh my lovely princess, "Raoden whispered. "You probably mean well, but handing these people food is the worst thing you could do to them."-Brandon Sanderson(Elantris)

When the productive lands lose their essence, our productive lives shall least have essence!

There must be more to life than having everything.