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Quotes About Meaning

We know that real life is "eucharist," a movement of love and adoration toward God, the movement in which alone the meaning and the value of all that exists can be revealed and fulfilled.
~ Alexander Schmemann
wrapped in the scent of her warm, tempting skin? "When a human is . . . transformed
~ Alexandra Ivy
What was it the Chinese said…may you live in interesting times? He had a feeling that life with Mira was always going to be interesting. "This is why men lose their hair," he said.
~ Alexandra Ivy
The correct word is like any small detail - it enhances life.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
Life is too short for you to be the caretaker of the wrong details.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
They could come together again no other way because they had waited so long. Because they were all that mattered. Because he was life and she was its meaning.     The
~ Alexandra York
La ponctuation, ce n'est pas de l'orthographe, c'est de la pensée.
~ Alexandre Vialatte
To live a life that matters, make the house, where Gods may dwell, there, in the temple of the soul we will not die an unlived life. we will not live in fear of falling there, the dark stars waiting with their light to draw the veil from truth.
~ Alexis karpouzos
We can't communicate the incommuunicable, we can't explain the inconceivable, life's fullness forever lies in wait about each one of us, and the lonely emptiness of existence is permanent, but a star deep in our heart lead us the way home.
~ Alexis karpouzos
Any man that walks the mead In bud, or blade, or bloom, may find A meaning suited to his mind.
~ Alfred
I stood on a tower in the wet, And New Year and Old Year met, And winds were roaring and blowing: And I said, "O years, that meet in tears, Have ye aught that is worth the knowing? Science enough and exploring, Wanderers coming and going, Matter enough for deploring, But aught that is worth the knowing?"
~ Alfred
Life in general has no meaning. Whatever meaning life has must be assigned to it by the individual.
~ Alfred Adler
He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.
~ Alfred Austin
If the Crusades were not politics, we should have to narrow the meaning of the word very considerably.
~ Alfred Austin
Almost as essential to poetry, and equally as regards poetry of the loftiest and poetry of the lowliest kind, is lucidity, or clearness of expression. No poet of much account is ever obscure, unless the text happens to be corrupt.
~ Alfred Austin
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.
~ Alfred Austin
But no subject is equal to its own support, where the poet is concerned, however it may be with the preacher and the moralist. The poet himself must support it.
~ Alfred Austin
Faith in faith' he answered himself. 'It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.
~ Alfred Bester
There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.
~ Alfred Bester
Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
~ Alfred de Musset
mais il y a au monde une chose sainte et sublime, c'est l'union de deux de ces êtres si imparfaits et si affreux. On est souvent trompé en amour, souvent blessé et souvent malheureux; mais on aime, et quand on est sur le bord de sa tombe, on se retourne pour regarder en arrière et on se dit : j'ai souffert souvent, je me suis trompé quelquefois, mais j'ai aimé. C'est moi qui ai vécu, et non pas un être factice créé par mon orgueil et mon ennui.»
~ Alfred de Musset
Mais quel bien fait le bruit, et qu'importe la gloire ? Est-on plus ou moins mort quand on est embaumé ? Qu'importe un écolier, sachant trois mots d'histoire, Qui tire son bonnet devant une écritoire, Ou salue en passant un marbre inanimé ? Être admiré n'est rien ; l'affaire est d'être aimé.
~ Alfred de Musset
People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?
~ Bob Woodward
I'm not going to waste my time screaming at a neo-Nazi who is going to hate me no matter what.
~ Charles Barkley