Quotes About Meaning

This is why the classical of the jazz music station plays? to give a ground of meaning to our pain?

Can you remember? When we thought the poets taught how to live?

I never asked you to explain that act of violence what dazed me was our ignorance of our will to hurt each other.

We did this. Conceived of each other, conceived each other in darkness which I remember as drenched in light.           I want to call this, life.

I know you are reading this poem through your failing sight, the thick lens enlarging these letters beyond all meaning yet you read on because even the alphabet is precious.

I came to explore the wreck The words are purposes The words are maps I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail... the thing I come for: the wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and not the myth

You have to find the intersection of doing something you're passionate about and that, at the same time, is in the service of other people. I would argue if you don't find that intersection, you're not going to be very happy.

I find mediocrity hard. I find that whole area difficult. I'm a very passionate person; I care very much about what I do. I believe I give it a lot, so it's gotta be good; otherwise, what's the point?

I choose to fill my days with what I'm passionate about, and live with purpose.

What I'm passionate about is telling stories which mean something to me.

I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.

The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing else.

You can't learn pathos or profundity.

The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.

I think of John McCain as a conservative, but he is clearly not the same kind of 'conservative' as, say, Rand Paul. The word is close to losing almost all meaning.

I'm not looking for a paycheck.

There's so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to bring some meaning into it - it's a real peaceful thing to me.

Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

It's degrading or insulting to say somebody is a good person or has a soul. Each person has built this incredibly complex structure, and if you attribute it to a magical pearl in the middle of an oyster that makes you good, that's trivializing a person and keeps you from thinking of what's really happening.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

The word 'star' doesn't mean an awful lot to me. 'Good actor' and having the respect of one's peers means more.

There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.

The humanities are not something that get you a pension and health insurance.

Well what's funny is, again, people say they believed what was going on, but again, Bob's hands are about three times bigger than his feet. So these are very caricatured.