Quotes About Meaning

I took a few months off after my senior year was over, and I prayed and tried to figure out what was my plan and my purpose. That's how I started writing songs and playing guitar just to get my feelings out.

Prayer lays hold upon God and influences Him to work. This is the meaning of prayer as it concerns God. This is the doctrine of prayer, or else there is nothing whatever in prayer.

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

I'm not like a preacher or philosopher, but at the end of the day, life is about happiness.

Existence precedes and rules essence.

Life is precious.

Life is very precious.

I had my daughter, and with that came a deep sense of responsibility; my time for work had become precious, and it had to have more meaning.

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

And journaling became the place that I was able to find a sense of narrative control at a time when I had to cede so much control to others. It really - it became the place where I began to interrogate my predicament and to try to excavate some meaning from it.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.

Regency literature was too coal-y for me, too long-winded and describey. I preferred modern books where you had to read other books explaining what the first book meant to know what happened.

A preoccupation with money and, especially, with what money meant was, in our family, an inherited thing. My father's father, Jack, who died before I was born, was very much possessed by the idea that money was freedom.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.

For me, to say I want to go to sleep and retire and prepare for my afterlife, I think that is very selfish.

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

I searched for answers to life's meaning and, though I was raised a Presbyterian, I converted to Judaism around 1983.

For, usually and fitly, the presence of an introduction is held to imply that there is something of consequence and importance to be introduced.

When you have a lot of people playing different characters, you need to do justice to every character and bring meaning to their presence in the script.

You don't have to go to church to be spiritual, but there are certain times in your life that you know there is a presence of something very spiritual.

It's so easy just to see the one-to-one narrative between presence and non-presence.

I like Bill a lot. As Bill is presented, I mean you don't ever see Bill blow her head off? You know? And I think what Quentin has done is he created a monster.