Quotes About Meaning

Bu kadar yak?n?mda oldu?unu bilmiyordum ama, sen bir yerde var olursan ya?ayabilirim ancak demi?tim.

Ebedi a?k nedir? ?kimizin de 'yapacak hiçbir ?eyi olmamak'tan ba?ka ortak özelliklerimizin bulunmas? m?d?r?

??te ?ehirlerin katlar? birbirine kar???yor, i?te arkeolog-kar?ncalar! Her ?eyi yerli yerine yerle?tiriyorlar, i?te onlar?n sayesinde her ?ey Birdenbire anlam kazan?yor: Dört ta? bir ?ehir, yirmi iki kupon bedava bir apartman kat? oluyor, i?te yer levhalar?, i?te Yunanca, Latince ve bizim dilce.

?fadesi güç ?eyler dü?ünüyorum. ?eyler... ?eyler.' Durur, kafas?n? toparlama?a çal???rd?. 'Çok saçma ?eyler, çok önemsiz ?eyler de dü?ünüyorum. Kafam hiç durmadan çal???yor. Önemli, önemsiz: ben s?raya koymaya f?rsat bulamadan büyük bir h?zla geçiyorlar. Geriye yaln?z yorgunluk kal?yor. Okumal?y?m ve bütün bunlar? unutmal?y?m.

Ben ucuz bir romand?m. Hay?r, kötü bir edebiyat?n bile bir gerçekli?i vard?: Can s?k?c? taklitçileri bile benden gerçekti. Ben yoktum; hatta ben yokum, olmad?m diyemeyecek bir yerdeydim; kelimeler bile yanyana gelerek beni tan?mlamak istemezlerdi. Ne olurdu benim de kelimelerim olsayd?; bana ait bir cümle, bir dü?ünce olsayd?. Binlerce y?ld?r söylenen milyonlarca sözden hiç olmazsa biri, beni içine alsayd?!

What-ifs are for fools. We are here because are meant to be.

While I was an honorable man in her eyes, she did not love me. But the minute she understood what I was, when she breathed the true and foul odor of my soul, love was born in her – for she does love me! Well, well! There is nothing real, then, except evil.

I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

If you work hard enough at something that doesn't matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do.

Humans said one thing with their bodies and another with their mouths and everyone had to spend time and energy figuring out what they really meant.

Why is the universe?           To shape God.           Why is God?           To shape the universe.

Good stories are good stories, no matter how they're categorized.

Why is the universe? To shape God. Why is God? To shape the universe.

I'm trying to speak–to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

Chiedete a sette persone che cosa significa tutto ciò e otterrete sette risposte diverse. Allora cos'è Dio? Solo un altro nome per qualsiasi cosa ci faccia sentire speciali e protetti?

If you work hard enough at something that doesn't matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do.

Some say God is a spirit, a force, an ultimate reality. Ask seven people what all of that means and you'll get seven different answers. So what is God? Just another name for whatever makes you feel special and protected?

There are easier ways to say these things," it admitted. "But some things shouldn't be said easily.

His air of innocent questioning confused me. Either he really didn't know what he was saying, or he had a career waiting in Hollywood.

They're good words. Not good enough to welcome a child into the world and into the community. No words are good enough to do that, and yet, somehow, words are needed. Ceremony is needed.

I hold your life and do not take it." They had begun as gestures of trust rather than of affection, but their meaning had grown. Now, depending on the circumstances, a simple lifting of the head—as she had lifted hers to receive his bite—could mean trust, affection, challenge, or contempt. It was, Tahneh thought bitterly, the perfect gesture for a betrayal.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

que busca? Tal vez busca su destino. Tal vez su destino es buscar. ...what is he searching for? Perhaps he searches for his destiny. Perhaps his destiny is to search.