Quotes About Meaning

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all.

I knew that we were sharing something with our eyes, but I didn't know what, and I didn't know if it mattered.

There was nothing, which would have been unfortunate, unless nothing was a clue. Was nothing a clue?

des verstorbenen Philosophen Pinchas T., der in seiner einzigen bedeutenden Abhandlung An den Staub: vom Menschen bist du, und zum Menschen sollst du werden argumentierte, es sei theoretisch möglich, das Leben und die Kunst gegeneinander auszutauschen.

He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy.

How many hundreds of thousands of fingers brushing against each other does it take to make love? Why does anyone ever make love?

I could write more, but that is all that matters.

Are they both special? He cracked up and said, Of course their pop is gonna say they're special. But objectively. What's that? Like, factually. Truthfully. The truth is I'm their pop.

Without love, you die. With love, you also die. Not all deaths are equal.

Allora il mio papà merita di stare nell'archivio' 'Cosa ti fa pensare che sia un bene starci?' 'Pechè vuol dire che uno è biograficamente significativo' 'E perché, questo è un bene?' 'Io voglio essere significativo.' 'Nove persone significative su dieci hanno a che fare coi soldi o con la guerra

se nada importa, não há nada a salvar

I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?

I really have a piece-of-shit car. Is it brown? No, it's an expression. How can a car be an expression?

When I was your age, my grandfather bought me a ruby bracelet. It was too big for me and would slide up and down my arm. It was almost a necklace. He later told me that he had asked the jeweller to make it that way. Its size was supposed to be a symbol of his love. More rubies, more love. But I could not wear it comfortably. I could not wear it at all. So here is the point of everything I have been trying to say. If I were to give a bracelet to you, now, I would measure your wrist twice.

The end of suffering does not justify the suffering, and so there is no end to suffering

Esti ridicola. Nu fac decat sa dorm in alta camera. - Dar iubirea inseamna o camera. Asta-i tot ce inseamna.

I read the first chapter of A Brief History of Time when Dad was still alive, and I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn't even matter if I existed at all. When Dad was tucking me in that night and we were talking about the book, I asked if he could think of a solution to that problem. Which problem? The problem of how relatively insignificant we are.

Cartile sunt pentru aceia care nu au vieti adevarate.

and making her happy is another one of my raisons d'être.

Per la prima volta in vita mia mi sono chiesto se la vita valeva tutta la fatica che serve per vivere. Perché, esattamente, valeva la pena vivere? Che c'è di così orrendo nell'essere morti per sempre e non provare niente, non sognare niente? Che c'è di così fantastico nel provare sensazioni e far sogni?

If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.

Not in all ways (of course), but the animals you know have power: they have abilities humans lack, could be dangerous, could bring life, mean things that mean things.

The question of eating animals hits chords that resonate deeply with our sense of self—our memories, desires, and values. Those resonances are potentially controversial, potentially threatening, potentially inspiring, but always filled with meaning.

Het eten van dieren raakt ons in het diepste van ons wezen, in onze herinneringen, onze verlangens en onze waarden. Wat het bij ons losmaakt is potentieel controversieel, potentieel bedreigend, potentieel inspirerend, maar altijd betekenisvol.