Quotes About Meaning

She held the robe together with both hands—there was so much to cover that it took both hands—and stepped aside as I walked

Human life, for Nietzsche, is ultimately a part of a kind of vast game…[which] is, so to speak, the only game in town….The nature of the game, he holds, establishes a standard for the evaluation of everything falling within its compass. The availability of this standard places evaluation on footing that is as firm as that on which the comprehension of life and the world stands.

How could one find out about life when one was about to die?

At the age of twelve, before I had had one full year of formal schooling, I had a conception of life that no experience would ever erase, a predilection for what was real that no argument could ever gainsay, a sense of the world that was mine and mine alone, a notion as to what life meant that no education could ever alter, a conviction that the meaning of living came only when one was struggling to wring a meaning out of meaningless suffering.

There was a hunger for power reaching out of the senses of man and trying to say something in the symbols of action.

Even the cat smiles When the hen swallows water With back-tilted head.

I had a conception of life that no experience would ever erase, a predilection for what was real that no argument could ever gainsay, a sense of the world that was mine and mine alone, a notion as to what life meant that no education could ever alter, a conviction that the meaning of living came only when one was struggling to wring a meaning out of meaningless suffering.

In the middle of the brutal reality of death, Jesus never stopped calling people to life. Centering his attention on life, he continually pushes past the smaller and cheaper things we tend to live for and goes right to the core issue, which is life itself.

What does sincerity mean if it is chosen as deliberate strategy?

Morality's just comfort food -- it holds no meaning outside of our minds.

HUGS, another one of the many benefits of not being a nihilistic, psychopathic automaton.

You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search.

Jason scratched his head. You named him Festus? You know that in Latin, 'festus' means 'happy'? You want us to ride off to save the world on Happy the Dragon?

Life is only precious because it ends, kid.

Braccas meas vescimini ! I wasn't sure where the Latin came from. I think it meant 'Eat my pants!

Names have power.

Just tell me, Percy, do you still have the birthday gift I gave you last summer? I nodded and pulled out my camp necklace. It had a bead for every summer I'd been at Camp Half-Blood, but since last year I'd also kept a sand dollar on the cord. My father had given it to me for my fifteenth birthday. He'd told me I would know when to spend it, but so far I hadn't figured out what he meant. All I knew that it didn't fit the vending machines in the school cafeteria.

If I'm dead, he murmured. Why does it hurt so much?

You can tell the future?' 'More like the future mugs me from time to time.' Rachel said 'I speak prophecies. The oracle spirit kind of hijacks me once in a while, and speaks important stuff that doesn't make any sense to anybody. But yeah, the prophecies tell the future.

A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone.

Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.

So, great. This is Camp…what do you call it? Camp Fish-Blood?" Aphros frowned. "I hope that was a joke. This is Camp __________." He made a sound that was a series of sonar pings and hisses.

It's not how long you live that matters. It's what you live for.

Tyson! Thank the gods, Annabeth is hurt! You thank the gods that she is hurt? he asked, puzzled.