Quotes About Meaning

Because you could not translate the word apartheid into the more universal language of English, the wrong connotation was given to it.

I am sick and tired of the hollow parrot-cry of Apartheid! Ive said many times that the word Apartheid means good neighbourliness.

If we want know the meaning of existence, we must open a book: over there, in the darkest chapter, there's a sentence written especially for us.

T]he distance between sympathy and sensuality is as short as that which separates those two words in the dictionary.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserved.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.

He means well" is useless unless he does well.

I think that it is death alone that makes things poignant.

We are still too much a part of the story of what is happening to religious consciousness to assess its meaning.

The word buddha, however, simply means "awake" or "awakened." It does not refer to a particular historical person or to a philosophy or religion.

I think we must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?

My hope, O Lord, is in you. You are my Way, my Truth, my Life; my one and supreme good. Help me to never lose sight of my ultimate destination or be detoured by the maze of slogans clamoring for my attention. Keep my heart and my gaze fixed on you, who give meaning to everything in and around me.

But we must have something beyond survival to live for, or we shall not survive.

Your existence cannot be a mere stochastic accident.

Skafloc looked at him out of weary eyes. 'Have the Sidhe that many ears?' he asked. 'No,' said Gulban, 'but they know when something of great portent nears

Elves know friendship, if not love, and I would fain see that done which would have gladdened him.

Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

Dalam hidup kita, cuma satu yang kita punya, yaitu keberanian. Kalau tidak punya itu, lantas apa harga hidup kita ini?

Tahu kau mengapa aku sayangi kau lebih dari siapa pun? Karena kau menulis. Suaramu takkan padam ditelan angin, akan abadi, sampai jauh, jauh di kemudian hari. (Mama, 84)

Hidup sungguh sangat sederhana. Yang hebat-hebat hanya tafsirannya.

Painting is literature in colors. Literature is painting in language.

Setiap pengalaman yang tidak dinilai baik oleh dirinya sendiri ataupun orang lain akan tinggal menjadi sesobek kertas dari buku hidup yang tidak punya makna. Padahal setiap pengalaman tak lain daripada fondasi kehidupan

The fracture of pencil still useful, but the fracture of soul, we couldn't use it, Mister.