Quotes About Meaning

I don't believe in dying for causes. I don't believe in dying for poetry. Once I worshiped Keats for dying young. Now I think it's braver to die old.

Si ce que tu dis n'est pas plus beau que le silence, alors tais-toi

La quantité ne fait pas la vérité.

Ce qui constitue la beauté d'une bataille, ce n'est ni le succès ni la défaite, c'est la raison de la bataille.

es gibt gar keine Erklärung fürs Leben, man muß es einfach leben.

Dieu n'est présent en moi que sous la forme de sa question.

Nonna Rosa, perché il tuo Dio permette che ci siano persone come Peggy e me? E' una fortuna che sia così, Oscar, perché la vita sarebbe meno bella senza di voi.

Ho cercato di spiegare ai miei genitori che la vita è uno strano regalo. All'inizio lo si sopravvaluta, questo regalo: si crede di aver ricevuto la vita eterna. Dopo lo si sottovaluta, lo si trova scadente, troppo corto, si sarebbe quasi pronti a gettarlo. Infine ci si rende conto che non era un regalo, ma solo un prestito. Allora si cerca di meritarlo.

Am încercat s? le explic p?rinÈ›ilor mei ce-i viaÈ›a, un cadou foarte tare. La început, supraestim?m cadoul asta: credem c-am primit via?? veÈ™nic?. De aceea îl subestim?m, ni se pare urât, prea scurt, mai c-am fi gata s?-l arunc?m. În sfârÈ™it, ne d?m seama c? n-am primit un cadou, ci un împrumut.

Nasza przesz?o?? ma taki ci??ar, jaki jej nadamy; refleksja i praca pozwalaj? uczyni? j? lekk?.

Tentei explicar aos meus pais que a vida é um presente engraçado. Ao principio sobrestimamos este presente: acreditamos ter recebido a vida eterna. Mais tarde, subestimamo-lo, achamos que é uma porcaria, muito curta, ficamos quase tentados a deitá-la fora. Por fim, percebemos que não era um presente, era apenas um empréstimo. E então esforçamo-nos por merecê-lo.

PoÅ'o?yÅ' mi rÄ™kÄ™ na ramieniu, utkwiÅ' we mnie swe jasne tÄ™czówki i, cho? dzisiaj nie potrafiÄ™ stwierdzi?, czy to powiedziaÅ', czy zrozumiaÅ'em go bez sÅ'ów, daÅ' mi swojÄ… ostatniÄ… radÄ™ Saharyjczyka: - Nie zapomnij tego, co niezapomniane.

Certes, elle n'était véhiculée que par des femelles, ce qui lui ôtait de la crédibilité mais, dans le même temps, lui garantissait une propagation rapide.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

The failure of modern culture lies not in its principle of individualism, not in the idea that moral virtue is the same as the pursuit of self-interest, but in the deterioration of the meaning of self-interest; not in the fact that people are too much concerned with their self-interest, but that they are not concerned enough with the interest of their real self; not in the fact that they are too selfish, but that they do not love themselves.

The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the heart of most men lives still in the Stone Age. The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective. They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man himself.

Naces solo y mueres solo, y en el paréntesis la soledad es tan grande que necesitas compartir la vida para olvidarlo.

If I am nothing but what I believe I am supposed to be—who am I?

When a person feels that he has not been able to make sense of his own life, he tries to make sense of it in terms of the life of his children. But one is bound to fail within oneself and for the children. The former because the problem of existence can be solved by each one only for himself, and not by proxy; the latter because one lacks in the very qualities which one needs to guide the children in their own search for an answer.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Why is it that a connection that seems to have nothing to do with looks—because it feels so much deeper than that, like a connection of minds and souls—is actually entirely dependent on looks?

The food doesn't matter, really. What it evokes does.

Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you.