Quotes About Meaning

I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something - that may not be very clear to me right now - but that I will do.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.

If you're going to write something, that's going to be read by people, a lot of people, you hope it will not only entertain them but maybe do them some good in some way.

The atheist has no hope.

When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose.

We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

Nothing is as hopeless as trying to justify art in words.

I hope this means you'll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.

Hope is not a feeling. It is not the belief that things will turn out well, but the conviction that what you are doing makes sense, no matter how things turn out.

I hope that death contains less than this.

Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.

I hope you will no longer accuse me of a lack of delicacy. as I now count on your understanding.

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

The meaning of religious truth is hope.

Your spirit is the part of you that seeks meaning and purpose. It's the part drawn to hope, that will not give in to despair.

I hope my films will never completely be without the ability to mark anybody.

what storyteller is adequate to her story? The story carries us along, bottles on the tide, each with our secret mesage and the fervent hope that it does not turn out to be blank.

I guess what this is reflecting is my own search for answers that I can't find. Frank [Moore Cross] and I have examined a lot of archaeological materials in the hope of finding out.

Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.

I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.

We're seeing a decline in religion in North America but, I hope, a rise in individual spirituality. Whatever that means to people.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

The desire for hope and change is easily understandable. In many ways it's even more dramatic in Europe.