Quotes About Meaning

Have you killed anyone?" she asked quickly. "What? Did you miss what I said, about turning murder into an art form?" "But you haven't actually killed anyone yet, have you? I read your file." He glowered. "Technically, yeah, all right, maybe I haven't

Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.

Razzia: what is the time?" Razzia nodded. "Time is a social construct designed to derive order from chaos.

But he's in shackles, right? You beat him?" "I like to think I beat him in a moral sense, in that he's an assassin and I'm not, but apart from that, no, not really.

You Necromancers have your messiah," Finbar said, "now we Remnants have ours.

This necklace has cost two very fine men their lives. At times I wear it in tribute to their sacrifice. Other times, I wear it because it goes with this skirt, - China Sorrows

You ask in awful lot of questions." "When I grow up, I want to be a detective just like you." He looked over and saw her grinning. He laughed. "I suppose you do share my penchant for raising Cain.

Wreath frowned. "Billy-Ray Sanguine? What would he want with a Soul Catcher?" "This is just a guess," Skulduggery said, "but maybe he wants to use it to catch a soul.

I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've been thinking about for a long time. What form of punishment is enough for what I did? Imprisonment? Death? Something else? Something scarier? I could only think of so many horrible tortures before they stopped having meaning. But you, you've come up with a punishment I never considered. You're going to sulk me to death.

Valkyrie!" Melancholia called. "Please help me!

Lament turned to Skulduggery. "Do you want me to hold your hand?" "I'd rather you didn't." "Perfectly understandable," Lament said.

I planned all of this," Skulduggery whispered. "Oh, shut up.

True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

The deeply learned ones know the mind as the directly expressed meaning of the supreme knowledge. The heart is the meaning aimed at. The Supreme is none other than the heart.

If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge through what he has communicated to us.

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.

Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

The key to the understanding and to the full comprehension of all that the Prophets have said is found in the knowledge of the figures, their general ideas, and the meaning of each word they contain.

Knowledge of that which concerns us infinitely is possible only in an attitude of infinite concern.

We women, when we're searching for a meaning to our lives or for the path of knowledge, always identify with one of four classic archetypes.