Quotes About Meaning

Why is dance beautiful? And the answer is: because it is non-free motion, because the whole profound meaning of dance lies precisely in its absolute, esthetic subordination; its ideal non-freedom.

They longed for someone to tell them, once and for all, the meaning of happiness, and then to bind them to it with a chain. What are we doing now, if not this very thing?

there should be no love just because, but only 'love because of.

For death is exactly the most complete dissolution of the self in the universe. Hence: L=f (D), love is the function of death.

OvÅ¡em, je to jasné: chceme-li stanovit skute?nou hodnotu funkce, musíme ur?it její limitu. A je jasné, že limitou v?erejÅ¡ího hloupého "rozplynutí ve vesmíru" je smrt. Protože smrt je vlastnÄ› mé úplné rozplynutí ve vesmíru. Ozna?íme-li tedy lásku L a smrt S, bude L = f(S), tj. láska a smrt…

I ask you: what did people—from their very infancy—pray for, dream about, long for? They longed for some one to tell them, once and for all, the meaning of happiness, and then to bind them to it with a chain.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

Parenthood is not some special currency," Iris said. "Being a parent is not a status thing." "Surely they're superior in one way? They've done things we've been unable to do." "What, procreation? The turkeys do it. All those dogs and cats do it. Your bees, too. Fuck and breed.

SOMETIMES YOU HEAR PEOPLE say so-and-so has lived well, and so-and-so has had a dull life. They are missing a key point when they say that. Any experience is experience, any life a life. A day in a cloister can be as dramatic and fatal as a day on a battlefield.

To kill time - an English phrase that still chills me: time can be killed but only by frivolous matters and purposeless activities. No one thinks of suicide as a courageous endeavor to kill time.

Some people live by images, some by sounds. It's words for me. Words said to me. Words not meant for me but picked up by me in any case. Words in their written form. Words that make sense and words that make nonsense.

Often I think that writing is a futile effort; so is reading; so is living. Loneliness is the inability to speak with another in one's private language. That emptiness is filled with public language or romanticized connections. But one must be cautious when assuming meaning. A moment of recognition between two people only highlights the inadequacy of language. What can be spoken does not sustain; what cannot be spoken undermines.

There's a reason for every relationship, that's what the saying means. Husband and wife, parents and children, friends and enemies, strangers you bump into in the street. It takes three thousand years of prayers to place your head side by side with your loved one's on the pillow. For father and daughter? A thousand years, maybe. People don't end up randomly as father and daughter, that's for sure.

There could be many different Chinese characters for a name like hers, she explained. The characters her parents had chosen for her meant quietness. "Silence?" she tried again, sounding out the word, but then said the meaning was more like reticence. "It means for someone to choose not to express an opinion, to refrain from speaking.

When people talk about starting over, it's only wishful thinking: what came before, what happened yesterday, did not come or happen in vain.

In retrospect little makes sense - perhaps all stories, rather than once-upon-a-time, should start this way.

Any person who has information can connect with any other person who wants it, and anyone who wants to make it mean something in some context, can do so.

You have to understand the purpose of life, the purpose of life is to do something which will live forever.

Yeah, it's easy to say stuff. But, meaning what you say is something else. Right, Aunt Mito?

If, my lord, the dead alone Are all your care, life is no more a blessing.

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important.

I make a distinction between true and real. I think that the story is true, it's just not real. That's what a parable is. It takes things that we all know are real, and it takes life events that actually happen, and it weaves them into a fiction that allows truth to actually be embedded.

A parte de la vida misma, no veo otropa motivo para seguir viviendo.