Quotes About Meaning

And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.

what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

A unique human trait is that we try to find meaning in the things that happen to us.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.

We obtained literature by our own efforts, it is a product of our own life, and that is why we love it so much and hold it so dear, why we pin our hopes on it.

It's our journey to search for that piece of our soul with our life's purpose written on it." Cinderella in Focus: Cindy's Secret

Life is not a hope, but it is all of this !!

With new hope.We build new lives.Why complain when it rains?This is what it means to be free.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.

Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

The anthropic principle is an unfortunate name as it implies something about humanity.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty.

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of the cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that.

Our problem is that when you lose the touchstone, which is humanity, then when you have something like humans dying, it needs to feel profound.

The sciences are the 'how,' and the humanities are the 'why' - why are we here, why do we believe in the things we believe in. I don't think you can have the 'how' without the 'why.'

Words are humanity's greatest natural resource, but most of us have trouble figuring out how to put them together. Words aren't cheap. They are very precious.

Now, it is my contention that the deneuroticization of humanity requires a rehumanization of psychotherapy.