Quotes About Meaning

Coro Nadie llega a ninguna parte, las ciudades huyen y se esconden. Ejércitos de caminantes señalan falsos rumbos. Hemos nacido para no llegar

También sabemos que cualquier constelación es una trampa del pensamiento. A veces nos complacemos en trazar líneas que unen puntos, fechas, estrellas, sucesos. Entonces creemos que hay algo en común entre esos sucesos, estrellas, fechas y puntos, sin darnos cuenta de que el único parentesco es el que hemos dibujado nosotros con tendencioso lápiz. Una última consideración: la oscuridad del cielo debe ser entendida como un don.

Life is a play. What matters is not that it lasts a long time but that it be well-acted.

If you do not tell me what is your purpose in life, I cannot heal you." So I understood that if a ship crosses the sea without a purpose, it will arrive at no port. What prevents life from devouring us is having a purpose. The higher it is, the further it will carry us.

si crees que no hacer es vivir mejor. No, no hacer es vivir menos, y eso tú deberías saberlo.

Qué difícil es hablar así, sabiendo que todo lo que no sea hablar de lo que realmente importa es simplemente ruido. Huecos a rellenar.

Quiero que recuerdes una cosa, y que se la recuerdes a ella si en algún momento las cosas no van bien. Grábatela en la cabeza, Fer. Te ayudará ahora y si llegas a viejo entenderás que tengo razón, porque solo los supervivientes entendemos que la vida no es lo que es, sino lo que sentimos al recordarla.

Hi," she said, in a whispery voice, and nodded as if to confirm that she really meant it.

If you find yourself asking: How did I get here? Isador once said, that probably means you are living a life worth living.

I deigned to suggest to him that it was also the American thing -- America was nothing if not good intentions.

So you are Catholic? Didn't know that. I am nothing, I said. God knows God is no friend of mine. But I envy people who believe in this crap. They don't worry about the meaning of life and things, whereas I do.

What is life? This is no life. Who wants this life? The dead leave it to us to struggle in this world. They go elsewhere, wherever it is, and wait for God to sort it all out. But we have to stay here, no matter how hard it is. Nobody can be alone. Life is the life of others. My life, your life, that is nothing.

Escribir no vale de nada si no acarrea la agotadora e irresoluble carga de las decisiones sin consecuencia alguna.

The pretense of life he has assumed after dodging death and saving himself, after pushing away all those hands stretched out to pull him with them-after pushing them into death. But the premonition, dodging, and flight have consumed him and robbed his life of meaning, leaving only stagnation and lies, a daze this side of death, but that side of life.

Art extends each man's short time on earth by carrying from man to man the whole complexity of other men's lifelong experience, with all its burdens, colors and flavor.

The unconscious desire is not the content of the hidden message, it is the active designer of the form that latent thoughts get in a dream. This is why the key in psychoanalysis is not a key to a hidden meaning, but the key that "unlocks" this form itself (makes what has been associated to compose the hidden meaning dissociate). And this is what "the right word" does.

The lesson and the imperative of psychoanalysis is not "Let us devote all our attention to the sexual (meaning) as our ultimate horizon"; it is instead a reduction of sex and the sexual (which, in fact, has always been overloaded with meanings and interpretations) to the point of ontological inconsistency, which, as such, is irreducible.

Persuaso che la vita non è già destinata ad essere un peso per molti,e una festa per alcuni, ma per tutti un impegno, del quale ognuno renderà conto, cominciò da fanciullo a pensare come potesse render la sua utile e santa.

If he didn't like the writing, then he didn't like her, and everything she had done in her whole life would be for nothing.

A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life

Numbers are not impartial and straightforward; they have baggage.

Creo que lo único que quieres hacer cuando realmente has amado algo es transmitir su recuerdo a otros.

People have a capacity to keep going even when their world has been shattered. We all long for connection, for affirmation that our lives matter.

Thomas Moore, psicoterapeuta y autor del superventas Care of the Soul,b que nuestros momentos más conmovedores son aquellos en los que nos hallamos desequilibrados en lugar de equilibrados.