Quotes About Meaning

This is why I came walking, to tell you this so that you may heal. You must listen. Conor swallowed again. "I'm listening." You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. There

What are you?" Conor asked, pulling his arms closer around himself. I am not a "what," frowned the monster. I am a "who." "Who are you, then?" Conor said. The monster's eyes widened. Who am I? it said, its voice getting louder. Who am I? The

All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway.

People see stories everywhere...That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true.

We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true.

Az élet csak rohanás. És ha egyszer megállunk, talán abból tudjuk majd, hogy vége.

If you ever see a war," she says, not looking up from her clipboard, "you'll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appal you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.

Você não escreve sua vida com palavras — explicou o monstro. — Você escreve com ações. O que você pensa não é tão importante. Só é importante o que você faz.

He's uncertain what's going to happen next. But he is certain that that's actually the point. If this is all a story, then that's what the story means. If it isn't a story, then the exact same is true.

We don't say nothing more. What else is there to say? Everything and nothing. You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.

Las historias son importantes [...]. Pueden ser más importantes que cualquier otra cosa. Si portan la verdad.

La vita non si scrive con le parole, disse il mostro. Si scrive con le azioni. Quello che si pensa non conta. La sola cosa importante è ciò che si fa.

I'm listening." You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

Tu vida no las escribes con palabras -dijo el monstruo-. La escribes con acciones. Lo que piensas no es importante. Lo único importante es lo que haces.

But what good is being smart when you speak words and no one hears the ones you mean?

Not everyone has to be the guy who saves the world. Most people just have to live their lives the best they can, doing things that are great for them, having great friends, trying to make their lives better, loving people properly. All the while knowing that the world makes no sense but trying to find a way to be happy anyway. pg 216

Did it matter? George thought perhaps it did, and not in terms of finding truth or of any hope of discovering what really happened at any given moment. There were as many truths - overlapping, stewed together - as there were tellers. The truth mattered less than story's life. A story forgotten died. A story remembered not only lived, but grew.

My dear creature, I have done with all debate. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either MY COUNTRY, RIGHT OR WRONG, which is infamous, or MY COUNTRY IS ALWAYS RIGHT, which is imbecile.

Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.

even the silence, if you listened, meant something.

An awful lot of people come onto earth, eat, work and die and never contribute anything to the world,' Albert Price told a reporter. 'If they die, at least they will have done something.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

I only know one story. But oftentimes small pieces seem to be stories themselves.