Quotes About Meaning

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

So many needing so much to communicate what amounted to so little.

Borne wasn't even a killer as I was a killer, but someone who killed the innocent and tried to call them guilty.

But I am not those people. I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning.

Maybe all of this was prevarication and excuses and not an afterword at all.

What would you have done, reader, who has been able to follow me like the Magician followed me, invisible and ever-watchful and without consequence? *

He had come very far, this thought mixed with sadness for what lay behind, so many people with whom he'd forged such slight connections. So many people that, as he neared the end of the rocks, he wished he had known better, tried to know better. His caring for his father now seemed not like a selfless effort but something that had been for him, too, to show him what it meant to be close to someone

Or as he said sometimes, the system abhors source, makes its mapping into a maze, a mockery, and the more you think you understand it, the more you are colonized by it. And lost.

You see, if the function of a tool is removed, you have Art. Very witty, don't you think?

We all just want to people, and none of us know what that really means.

What a nothing you made out of the world you were given.

We all just want to be people, and none of us know what that really means.

I am just the biologist; I don't require any of this to have a deeper meaning. I am aware that all of this speculation is incomplete, inexact, inaccurate, useless. If I don't have real answers, it is because we still don't know what questions to ask. Our instruments are useless, our methodology broken, our motivations selfish.

It was added that the "true intent and meaning" of the act was "not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States.

I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before and little after.  Performers like fats waller, Sinatra, billie holiday, louis armstrong, rosemary clooney, ella, sammy Davis Jr, dean martin... If the lyrics weren't stupid. Words were important.

and then I said, "I love you" and all he said back was, "I know". "I know"... what does that mean?!

As the sign of a deeper truth, metaphor was close to sacrament. Because the vastness and richness of reality cannot be expressed by the overt sense of a statement alone.

En otras palabras, donde la Palabra está ausente allí no está la iglesia verdadera ni tampoco la verdadera adoración.

The universe, according to Calvin, is "a mirror in which we are to behold God."[6.22] Calvin said, "men cannot open their eyes without being compelled to see him.

La escatología no solo se ocupa de los acontecimientos del fin de los tiempos, también se ocupa del fin y del propósito divino para todos los acontecimientos históricos, lo cual es más importante.

Lo más importante es que hay un gran propósito detrás de la Creación y la Caída. Aprendemos que nada sucede por error; que no hay personajes irrelevantes; que hay un propósito para todo y para todos.

There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.

I'd like to ask you a question, if I may." "What?" "All these poems you've written and hidden—so many poems. Why?" While she thought, morning broke and the birds sang in the garden. "Because I could not stop.