Quotes About Meaning

I have retired, but if there is anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

A frase do Otto é mais importante do que Os sertões de Euclides da Cunha. ritinha

Anna's illusion of control had been smashed years before with the sudden, meaningless death of her husband. In the years since, she'd made an effort not to give in to the need to put the pieces back together, but to see and know and accept with some degree of grace that life is meaningless. There is no Grand Plan. Everything doesn't happen for the best. One can knock till one's knuckles are bloody and the door may not be opened.

A person's passion told a lot about who they were. Those without passions seemed to have a hollow place inside. One never knew what grew in that darkness.

Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.

There ought to be some other means of reckoning quality in this the best and loveliest of games; the scoreboard is an ass.

If you're going to ask me to provide myself with three nice little alibis," said Hersey, "you may as well know straight away that I can't do it. I seem to remember reading somewhere that that makes me innocent and I'm sure I hope it's true" "It's in the best tradition of detective fiction, I understand," said Allyen with a smile.

We all have to find a story to live by and live inside, or we couldn't endure the certainty of suffering.

The parts of our lives when we write them down seem to belong in different books, by different writers even. What all these bits and pieces make up I don't know. There is no plot. Perhaps meaning is something we invent afterward, putting it all together, like imagined God.

It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as a source for 11th-century Scottish politics would rather miss the point of the play, and the same is true of the Homeric epics.

Hey, man, helping you is how I stay alive. Never forget that.

Before you cross the street, take my hand, Life is what happens to you While you're busy making other plans…

Entre ustedes y yo: El espíritu muere con la muerte.

Oh, happiness," said Frieda. "That's not what this is about.

Sylvia Plath's writing, to her, broke open the "vaults of the dead"

The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.

It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.

The strip-mining of "relevant content" replaces the slow excavation of meaning. IT

He's not seeking some greater truth beyond the work. The work is the truth.

These things have a huge impact on how music is experienced by listeners; they can make one performance profoundly moving, another dull or ridiculous or unintelligible, even though the notes are the same.

Lyotard suggests that while discourse operates as a system of representation which defines meanings according to their relation to other concepts in that system, figure is the realm of the singular, of that which refuses to, or simply cannot, be captured and systematized by the concept.

Co-creation meets a fundamental need, because 'we cannot bear to live our lives without some sort of content that we can see as constituting a meaning'.

Translation is a tricky business," Holmes observed, placing the tips of his fingers together in his accustomed fashion. "Cervantes once said that reading something in translation is like looking at a Flemish tapestry wrong side out. The image may be there, but is obscured by a great many dangling threads.

In truth, Derrida has always been preoccupied (in the strongest senses of that word) by what precedes or exceeds language.