Quotes About Meaning

Begging your pardon, sir, but you're crazy enough to be a Wraith." "Until you've crewed with me for a few years, kid, you have no idea what 'crazy' means.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is' My answer to that would be, 'No.'

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No'.

The inner drama is the meaning of the exterior event.

That's what it all meant. Be good. Be kind. Do whatever you can to help people. Be the best that you can be. Simple. Obvious. But true.

Stories help me feel complete.

The story is the important thing.

If you don't share your stories with other people. do they even count? If you don't share your stories, do they even need an ending? I know, it's that stupid if a tree falls in the forest sort of question, but I mean it.

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it, and every time you read it, depending on your conditions, you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel, once you have read it, you have grasped it.

Yet she belongs, finally and truly, only to God. The hijab is a symbol of freedom from the male regard, but also, in our time, of freedom from subjugation by the iron fist of materialism, deterministic science, and the death of meaning. It denotes softness, otherness, inwardness. She is not only caught in a world of power relations, but she inhabits a world of love and sacrifice. This freedom, which is of the conscience, is hers to exercise as she will.

The Sira is the interpretation of the Sura

A new danger lies in wait for the Arabo-Muslim societies: the ethical void, cretinization through sex, systematic infantilization. The negation of traditional references is certainly a necessary stage in our history, but the negation of those references is still a reference. The great risk is precisely non-reference. The easy models of sexual behaviour, imported from North America or Europe, relentlessly diffused through all the mass media, do not help us to find much meaning in sexuality.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

Y sólo entonces supe que mi vida había sido un desierto hasta ese instante, y conocí la dulzura del silencio entre compañeros.

What is the point of literature? I think that the person who asks that question will not find my answer convincing anyway

This is the burden we all have to bear, to live a useful life

I am a refugee, an asylum-seeker. These are not simple words, even if habit of hearing them makes them seem so.

Nunca temí morir, me daba miedo estar solo. Morir, el acto de morir no tiene en sí mismo ninguna grandeza, nada de misterioso o terrible. Es la muerte, el estar muerto, lo que aún me parece incalculable.

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man's inhumanity to man.

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.

A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.

Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body.

Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.

The songs we play, is the life we live