Quotes About Meaning

Neden her ÅŸeyi bozmaya, her ÅŸeyi deÄŸiÅŸtirmeye, her ÅŸeyi geçiciliÄŸe havale etmeye vazifelendirilmiÅŸiz böyle? Bu zevksiz görev, bütün dünyan?n 'hayat' diye tan?mlad??? ÅŸey miydi?

I am one who has always been interested only in the edges of the body and the spirit, the outlying regions of the body and the outlying regions of the spirit. The depths hold no interest for me; I leave them to others, for they are shallow, commonplace. What is there, then, at the outer most edge? Nothing, perhaps, save a few ribbons, dangling down into the void.

The perfectly ordinary girl and the great philosopher are alike: for both, the smallest triviality can become the vision that wipes out the world.

I want to make a poem of my life.

We all know that the world is empty and that the important thing, the only thing, is to try to maintain order in that emptiness.

Doesn't it seem as though her heart were a green flame? Perhaps it's the cold green heart of a small green snake, with a minute flaw in it, the kind of small green snake that slithers from branch to branch in the jungle, passing itself off as a vine. What's more, perhaps when she gave me the ring with such a gentle, loving expression, she wanted me to draw such a meaning from it some day.

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

To say human life had no meaning was the easy part. But Hanio was struck all over again by the huge amount of energy required to live a life filled with so much meaninglessness.

Da li je bolest, u stvari, samo ubrzavanje života?

Man does not live simply in order to die.

Once the world has been transformed into something meaningful, some feel they can die without regret. Others feel that they exist in a world without meaning, so what's the point of living? But where do these two sets of feelings converge? For Hanio, both paths led to the same thing: death.

It is no exaggeration to say that the first real problem I faced in my life was that of beauty.

Non è esagerato dire che il primo problema che affrontai in vita mia fu quello della bellezza.

A work of art is by no means the property of its creator.

No cabe temer la muerte del cuerpo, sino la del espíritu

Não se pode explicar alguma coisa meramente lhe dando um nome.

Küsides, mille nimel ta elab, muutub iga inimene rahutuks ja võib end isegi tappa. Mulle piisab ainuüksi sellest, et olemas olla. Kas kahtlus iseenda eksistentsi pärast ei teki just liigsest rahuolematusest, et ei elata täiel rinnal?

If one looks down on one's old village from a distant mountain pass, whatever details of that era may have faded from memory, the significance of having lived there becomes vividly apparent.

Just to exist was more than enough to satisfy me. In the first place, doesn't uneasiness about one's existence spring precisely from a sort of luxurious dissatisfaction at the thought that one may not be living fully?

It is because human beings always think of living for some kind of ideal, and they soon get bored of living just for themselves.

living is merely the chaos of existence...

When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.

not here (in the world) for a cause here for love lover's nest is the heart (I'm) here to make one

Never draw a line without purpose.