Quotes About Meaning

The meaning of life — that is something for a simpler time.

Running, I shall argue, is a way of understanding what is important or valuable in life.

Write a novel so clear and compelling you'll never need to explain what it's about.

It makes me think. Maybe the only meaning to life is that which we get from each other.

We are a species hungry for illusion. A powerful illusion not only convinces us it's real, it becomes more meaningful to us than reality.

Death, like life, finds meaning in our connections to each other. Grief is bearable only because it can be shared.

To create your comedic MAPP, you start with the purpose. Why are you writing humor? Is it to motivate or to entertain? Is the humor for a speech, a presentation, a comedy gig, or the classroom? The purpose gives direction and meaning to the material.

Life isn't simple. Literature shouldn't be either.

I distrust the perpetually busy, always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. The slower ones, grinding away their fourscore and ten in righteousness and pain. They are the soul-eaters.

After September 11, I wondered rhetorically midway through a column what we in the West are prepared to die for, and got a convoluted e-mail back from a French professor explaining that the fact that Europeans weren't prepared to die for anything was the best evidence of their superiority: they were building a post-historical utopia - a Europe it would not be necessary to die for. But sometimes you die anyway.

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art.

Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

Life should be more Than the body's weight working itself from room to room.

Tell me, you people out there, what is poetry anyway? Can anyone die without even a little?

You don't read a poem to find the meaning of life. The opposite. I mean, you'd be foolish to. Now, some American poets present the reader with a slice of life, saying, I went to the store today, and I saw a man, and he looked at me, and I looked at him, and we both knew we were … thieves. And aren't we all thieves? You know, this is extracting from everyday experience a statement about life, or a moral.

In another time, What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted To say that language is error, and all things are wronged By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.

that was when life made sense. Now there's nothing but madness.

As long as the physical universe remains our point of reference, we will never find what we are looking for.

The only way to make my life matter is to choose less. And the first thing I need less of is me. Once that issue is settled, I am in a position to live a life that lasts longer than I do.

Every day that you get up out of bed, every day God gives you on this earth, is an opportunity for you. He gives you each day to do with it whatever you want. You can waste it, or you can use it for good. Just remember, what you choose to do with each day is very important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it, and you don't know how many days you will have. When tomorrow comes, today will be gone forever. All you will have is whatever you traded this day for.

Without the Word of God no creature has meaning. God's Word is in all creation, visible and invisible. The Word is living, being, spirit, all verdant greening, all creativity. This Word manifests in every creature. Now this is how the spirit is in the flesh—the Word is indivisible from God —Hildegard of Bingen101

He gave a grim meaning to this threat by killing three of his Sikh opponents in one week.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter - it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning.