Quotes About Meaning

Crime 101: "Trust" is a word generally used by convicts and usually in the past tense—i.e., "I trusted him.

He seeks God in the same, although he has come to believe that truth and God are the same. Truth

This is a one-time thing," Danny says. "Your soul is never a rental," Bernie says. "It's always a sale.

The simple question 'What color do you want to paint that upstairs room?' might, if we follow things to their logical conclusions, be stated: 'How do I live, knowing that I will one day die and leave you?

Readers of symbols are forever at the mercy of desire.

One of the beautiful things about words is that you can put words together which in isolation mean nothing, or mean only what the dictionary says they mean, and you put them together and you get extraordinary effects.

I think that the effort is to reach a realm of meaning that is not quite sayable. You stay away from what can be said and you try to reach what cant quite be said. Yet it is nevertheless meaningful. And there is such a realm and it is very difficult to talk about. Its not quite nonverbal, but that comes fairly close.

I am never needlessly obscure--I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.

Art is not difficult because it wishes to be difficult, but because it wishes to be art.

Well, you might not think it to look at me," Dortmunder told him, "but I got a family crest." "Have you?" "Yeah. And it's got a motto on it." "I am anxious to hear this motto." "Quid lucrum istic mihi est." Mr. Hemlow squinted; the red-headed hawk in flight. "I'm afraid my Latin is insufficient for that." "What's in it for me," Dortmunder translated.

When spirituality is divorced from theology it speedily deteriorates into sentimentality.

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

So in his maturity—he was no longer young, but had lived a full circuit of the earth around the sun—he had dropped his Crustian name and chosen to call himself Gregor Samsa Ingledew, the full meaning of which was known, or appreciated, only by himself.

Perhaps all human effort is absurd. --pg112

This poem is not addressed to you.]" This poem is not addressed to you. You may come into it briefly, But no one will find you here, no one. You will have changed before the poem will. Even while you sit there, unmovable, You have begun to vanish. And it does not matter. The poem will go on without you. It has the spurious glamor of certain voids.

for a purpose without reason

You are making a difference in Life. Whether or not you realize it, every action, every re-action, or every non-action impacts Life. The question to ask yourself is not whether you are making a difference, but whether that difference is positive or negative.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Before you tell your life what you intend to do with it, listen for what it intends to do with you.

Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

Life is a prize, but to live doesn't mean you're alive

That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.