Quotes About Meaning

There is this strangeness of a life story having no shape—or more accurately, nothing but its present—until it has its ending; and then suddenly the whole trajectory is visible.

The vitality of literary character has less to do with dramatic action, novelistic coherence, and even plain plausibility—let alone likeability—than with a larger philosophical or metaphysical sense, our awareness that a character's actions are deeply important, that something profound is at stake, with the author brooding over the face of that character like God over the face of the waters.

But what is the point of tiring oneself over words that are being used from two quite different points of view? One should instead rely on the meaning intended.

His words are so slippery they might slide right off the page.

I don't know who I am. I don't know what to do with myself. Here I am, being me. I don't know what that means.

MacEmm, can I ask you? I don't know does it mean... does it mean anything with marrying, MacEmm? Doyler and me. " " No Jim, you can't ask me that." "I don't know, you see" "I haven't cigarrettes to be answering questions like that.

but he instinctively feels, I am good for something, my life has a purpose after all… How could I be useful, of what service can I be?

What troubled Father Henri was that Arn's apparently unwarranted worries might actually be expressing something else, a great loneliness.

Att säga att man respektera 'en lärare' är meningslöst eftersom 'lärare' bara är en titel. Frågan är om man kan respektera människan bakom titeln.

What had happened could not be interpreted any other way.

Life is not About Be, Have, Do or being the Best, but To strive for get the best Feeling out of what we Be, Have, Do or Get.

We work to live, we not live for to work, but we need to work if we no have income and the meaning of work is for everybody different, but the results from it is bring money for a better life.

Ancient Tragedy is loss of life, modern Tragedy is loss of purpose.

Few conversations, at any time of life, are more stimulating, more spontaneous and more genuinely original than those long ridiculous talks we all have, when we are very young, late at night about the meaning of life.

The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, drifting across the country down the centuries, subtly affecting the nations sensibilities even when its meaning is forgotten.

De eeuwigheid is het ogenblik waarvan je zegt, dat zal ik nooit vergeten.

Diepzinnigheid die niet gebakerd ligt in paradoxale oppervlakkigheid is natuurlijk een gruwel.

Leven moet geleefd worden. Je moet er ernst van maken anders ben je een plas die verdampt.

Why are you

Good Lord, if you denied sinners a funeral service in the church, there wouldn't be any," I said.

Let's go home," he said. Home. That word meant something completely different now than it had before. It meant everything.

Minimalism can help you find contentment and satisfaction and finally put meaning into your life. Just removing unnecessary things that do not bring any value to you will essentially open the door to a brand new perspective on living.

do with you?

There was a big drive when I was at art school to make you aware of the economy of meaning - after all, this was still during the tail end of minimalism. Being responsible for everything you put in your picture, and being able to defend it. Keeping everything clear around you so you know what is operating. To open the wound and keep it clean.