Quotes About Meaning

One has never said better how much "humanism", "normality", "quality of life" were nothing but the vicissitudes of profitability.

Poetry is indispensable --if I only knew what for.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

I woke up, smiling to myself at this dream with its allegorical aspects but with no real meaning.

Totul devenea rapid, brutal, adeseori dur, uneori cam sec li totul dura.

În acest spa?iu ?i acest timp eram ca ni?te fire de praf care nu-?i g?seau fericirea decât în confuzie ?i distrugere.

The explanation is that it is rivals rather than enemies who hamper our beginnings, and it is against them we fight until the great conflicts arise which decide ways of life, modes of thought, and the meaning of history.

Tradi?iile nu câ?tig? nimic când sunt prea bine explicate. Ele nu pot decât s?-?i piard? din rigoare ?i îngustimea înc?p??ânat? care le dau o parte de frumuse?e.

John Marshall on writing: The man who by seeking embellishment hazards confusion, is greatly mistaken in what constitutes good writing. The meaning ought never to be mistaken. Indeed, the reader should never be obliged to search for it.

It's a good day when you can get two birds stoned at once.

Though it was at my heart's bidding that I chose the universe wherein I delight, I have at least the power of finding in it the many meanings I wish to find: there is a close relationship between flowers and convicts.

We are the ink that gives the white page a meaning.

They made comments about the women's legs, but, as they were not witty, their remarks had no finesse. Since their emotion was not torn by any point, they quite naturally skidded along on a stagnent ground of poetry.

Il ne savait pas encore que tout événement de notre vie n'a d'importance que la résonance qu'il trouve en nous, que le degré qu'il nous fait franchir vers l'ascétisme

I was aghast by the betrayal those thoughts represented, by the callous creature they proved me to be.

Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Sometime reality is too complex. Stories give it form.

I think architecture has to be a gift.

[H]e sang words without sense, but their tone went to his heart...

Art is indeed not the bread but the wine of life.

Est-ce un malheur si grand que de cesser de vivre?

The only thing I'm sure of is that one can't be a complete unbeliever. That would be to admit to nothingness. Absolute zero doesn't exist.