Quotes About Meaning

You were created on purpose for a purpose.

Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.

I mean, really ponder what God gave you breath for. Most of our suffering means nothing. What are we striving for? To make ourselves more comfortable? To add prestige or honor to our reputation? Buth then you find something - a cause, a person - worth dying for, and you realize that's the best gift God can give you, because until you know what you'd die for, you don't know what you're living for.

There's always a reason for God's creation. What was he trying to tell us? What are we to learn from all this?

No one can know the true meaning of the language of spiritual writers if he is unable to explain it theologically; and, on the other hand, no one can know the sublimity of theology if he is ignorant of its relations to mysticism.

The ties that bind a family together must surely mean more in the Spirit than we can know in the flesh.

The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have.

I wonder if anyone who needs a snappy song service can really appreciate the meaning of the cross.

There are books that I own that somehow even without reading them they mean something to me. So I think people have a relationship with books in a library whether you've come specifically to read them or not.

De regen op de ruit als de wind schuin staat de lampen die zwaaien boven de tramrails simpele dingen wil ik zien en horen zonder de poespas van de betekenislaag.

Ik was een naakte letter zonder alfabet

Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new meanings,--and one often regrets having an alphabet familiar to too many half-lettered persons.

C'est le passé. L'avenir sombre dans le passé dès qu'il a cessé d'être futur. Le présent n'existe pas. Vouloir l'éterniser, c'était éterniser le néant. C'est ce que j'ai fait !

Pourquoi cet absurde besoin de savoir ? Et si les hommes veulent être heureux, qu'ils se chargent eux-mêmes de leur bonheur !

If philosophers were always in agreement about the meaning of words, almost all their disputes would evaporate.

It's funny, I've decided 'Hallelujah' is a kind of Rorschach test for people, because everyone has a different reaction to it and to what I'm doing. I just sang it, and whatever came out was just natural and spontaneous and maybe that's the best thing, because there's a kind of enigma, both in the meaning of the words and the way Leonard Cohen said them, that catches people's attention.

I believe in the magic and authority of words.

Avec celui que nous aimons, nous avons cessé de parler, et ce n'est pas le silence. --- Gdy z osob? kochan? przestajemy mówi?, nie zapada cisza.

Obey your pigs who exist; I obey my gods who do not.

L'essentiel est sans cesse menacé par l'insignifiant.

Instead of reorganizing the demoniac, rearranging it a bit, like a psychoanalyst, you do away with it entirely.

Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost impossible to express undifferentiation.

we imitate the detached generosity of God, then the trap of mimetic rivalries will never close over us.

Is it conceivable to western minds that a mere treatise on grammar or geography, or even on commerce, should at the same time possess another meaning that makes it an initiatic work of great importance ? So it is nonetheless, and these are not chance examples; these three cases are from books that very really exist and that we actually have in our hands. [...]