Quotes About Meaning

I'm an author, Calista. The older I get, the more I'm convinced that a truth only makes sense when it is revealed in the form of a story. Without that context it is simply a random event with no meaning.

Reconsider, v. To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Rolul artei este s? completeze natura, iar rolul naturii este s? imite arta. Moartea e funcÈ›ia pe care a n?scocit-o natura pentru a imita fotografia. Iar oamenii au inventat fotografia pentru a capta acest formidabil stop-cadru pe care-l reprezint? momentul morÈ›ii. Stau È™i m? întreb ce sens putea avea moartea înainte de Nicephore Niepce.

What's a year in comparison with eternity? what's a day? an hour? a second? Such measures have meaning only for a heart that's still beating.

Bu halde hiçbir ÅŸeyim önemi kalmaz ve zaten ölümüm de yoldan olmaz.

you cannot love, what use is the rising and the setting of the sun?

Je ne manquai pas de rappeler que notre "paradis" avait pour origine un vieux mot persan, "paradaeza", qui veut dire "jardin

Le plus important dans une Å"uvre littéraire, ce n'était pas le message que l'auteur avait souhaité nous transmettre, mais les nourritures intellectuelles et affectives que chaque lecteur pouvait y puiser lui-même.

home is always located in the past. It is not enough for me to say, 'Arlington.' Also, it is a noun used strictly in the singular. The word 'homes' is antithetical to the idea of home.

Love is an evil word. Turn it backwards. See, see what I mean?

The idea that came through in the Renaissance and took hold of the West was that life was no mere anteroom for something greater or divine. Life itself was of value--and could be made perfect.

Today's young people suffer from an overdose of information processing and many of them are trying to come back from information to meaning processing to reinvent the meaning of their lives. Here again all they need is inner situational creativity.

For the benefit of those half-dozen people who will see a name like Gwillim and put this book down in order to go look it up to see where it comes from — it is the Welsh version of William

Vanitarianism (n.) The pursuing of vanities. Only one citation is provided for this word, and it comes, rather unsurprisingly, from Thackeray, a writer who seems to have an unreasoning fondness for the word vanity. also

Heterophemize (v.) To say something different from what you mean to say. Think back on all the things you've said in life that you truly wish you hadn't. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just claim afterward that you had been heterophemizing, and be instantly forgiven? Homodoxian

Rejoy has several meanings, the first two of which are somewhat noble, and more than somewhat boring. The third meaning, however, is probably the most applicable one for most people, as so many of us cannot seem to enjoy things unless we possess them. Which explains the existence of shopping malls. Remord

In just the first letter of the OED you will find words as magnificent as agathokakological (composed of good and evil), as delicately shaded as addubitation (the suggestion of doubt), and as odd as antithalian (opposed to fun or festivity). I

The original meaning of dilapidate (from the Latin dilapidare, to squander) was to allow a building to fall into a state of disrepair. In New York dilapidators are simply known as landlords. also

Among people who might be described as having at least a passing regard for the English language, there are few instances of usage that evoke a desire to mutilate more than the perceived misuse of literally.

Or we reference Winston Churchill, who was famously reported to have written "This is the kind of tedious/arrant nonsense up with which I will not put," in response to an overweening staffer having removed a preposition from some of his writing. (However, as with many quotes that are purported to have originated with the former prime minister of Great Britain, the author was someone other than Churchill).*

No one is yet using figuratively to mean literally; the confusion, such as it is, is all in one direction.

Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.

Without a mythology, faith is impersonal and heartless.

The whole of reality was just a vain attempt to imitate the world of words.