Quotes About Meaning

O mundo é o verdadeiro espelho em que o homem se busca. A arte não passa de um reflexo em que ele se encontra.

Quer dizer que a morte não nos tomará nada (já que só nos tomará o futuro que não é), que o tempo não nos toma nada (já que o presente é tudo), enfim que é absurdo esperar a eternidade - pois já estamos nela. ''Se entendermos eternidade não como uma duração infinita mas como atemporalidade,'' dizia por sua vez Wittgenstein, ''então tem a vida eterna quem vive no presente.

Milagre da literatura, quando é verdadeira.

Ce que j'appelle désespoir, philosophiquement, est très proche de ce que Freud, à sa façon et d'un autre point de vue, appelle le travail de deuil. Ce n'est pas du tout un travail de la tristesse ! Le but du deuil, c'est la joie.

On ne peut pas faire un art qui parle aux masses quand on n'a rien à leur dire, mais nous luttons ensemble, nous voulons faire une autre vie ensemble, et nous avons tout à nous dire.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

But after all, dear Mr. Goldfaden," he went on, chilled by fear, "if God did not exist, what would you and I be?" The old man offered a compassionate smile, and his voice sought vainly for the lost tone of gaiety. "Poor little Jewish men, no?

Bueno-explicó-(¿Qué más desea el lector:¿Explicó?¿Contó?¿Dijo?¿Musitó?¿Interecedió?¿Requirió?¿Sibiló?, esta última palabra para enriquecer el conocido y monotonísimo axioma del fanfarrón y pseudovanguardista J.COrtázar. ¡Ah, los caminos sin fin de la vana literatura!)

Gigantesca luna y un viento de las montañas, profundo, acompaño la comprensión del momento: que todo en esta vida son letras.

Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting value or meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting value or meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that had any lasting value or meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

I tell myself: Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting value or meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life's meaning-that event which i may not yet have found but on whose path I seek myself- is not earned by work.

A life that has been bought by the blood of friends must not be thrown away.

The unsayable! It was mysteriously linked, I now understood, to the essential. The essential was unsayable. Incommunicable. And everything in the world that tortured me with its silent beauty, everything that needed no words, seemed to be essential. The unsayable was essential.

All that counts in life is intention.

I know a lot of people think that whole God thing is a joke but I just get a feeling he's up there somewhere.

It only becomes art if it touches other people.

I was born into this world without knowing what life was all about. Only power promised fulfillment in life, and I have pursued it--long enough to recognize that it's a false promise and that this road leads to nothing. But I tried. Even if we get no answers to our questions, it is the inalienable right of every living being to search for them--by all means, on all paths, and with all strength. What I did was only what I had a right to do.

You know, I ask myself what wealthy people do all day. What do you do when you aren't forced to work but still need the feeling that life must have some kind of meaning?

Our secrets, odd or not, are the pins that keep our inner life in place: the inform our psyche with meaning.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

An apposition like this either would not have occurred to the editors in the case of any other country or, if it had passed through their minds, they would have guarded against relating it to those readers interested in what the left-liberal Frankfurter Rundschau has to say.