Quotes About Meaning

we are starved for any touch with that which, in most cultures, was provided for by religion or by the equivalent of religion, and with us, there is hardly anything which is worth while to mention.

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?

The outside reality, persons and things, have meaning only in terms of their satisfying or frustrating the inner state of the body. Real is only what is within; what is outside is real only in terms of my needs—never in terms of its own qualities or needs.

Unless he belonged somewhere, unless his life had some meaning and direction, he would feel like a particle of dust and be overcome by his individual insignificance.

Tarih hiçbir ÅŸey deÄŸildir ve hiçbir ÅŸey yapmaz. Bir ÅŸey olan ve yapan, insand?r.

The understanding of the operation of unconscious elements has taught us to be sceptical towards words and not to take them at face value.

In this sense all cultures are religious and every neurosis is a private form of religion, provided we mean by religion an attempt to answer the problem of human existence.

Come let me kiss you. Life was never so precious as today— when it meant so little.

The simplest and the most incredible thing in the world had come true again: two people speaking to each other, each for himself; and sounds, called words, shaped the same images and feelings in that palpitating mass behind the skull, and out of meaningless vibrations of the vocal chords and their unexplainable reactions in the viscous gray convolutions, skies suddenly grew again in which were mirrored clouds, brooks, past times, growth and decay and hard-won wisdom.

Ja mis teil südamel ka poleks – ärge pidage seda liiga tähtsaks. Vähe on asju, mis kauaks tähtsaks jäävad.

Maailmas jätkub kõige jaoks kohta. Ainult mitte inimese jaoks.

Why—the question on which all logic, all philosophy, all science has shattered up to now

Stebuklas, kai j? patiri, niekuomet n?ra pilnas, tik atmintis padaro j? tokiu.

and without love, one is a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates and a chance name on it, and we as well die.

Now I suddenly saw that I could be something to someone, simply because I was there, and that that person was happy because I was with her. Said like that, it sounds very simple; but when you think about it, it is a tremendous thing, a thing that knows no end. It is something that can break and transform one. It is love and yet something more —something for which one can live.

A man has to have something he can put faith in. Can't you see that? What I want is someone that will love me; she would have me and I her. Otherwise a man may just go hang himself

Iga elatud päev tähendab üks päev vähem olemasolu.

Vienatv? ieško kelion?s draugo, neklausdama, kas jis. Kas to nesupranta, tas niekada nebuvo vienišas, o tik vienas.

Žmogus nesi jau toks svarbus. - Nesvarbus? - Švarcas v?l pak?l? sutrikus? veid?. - Nesvarbus? Žinoma, ne! Bet malon?kite pasakyti man, kas gi tuomet svarbu, jeigu gyvenimas nebesvarbus? - Niekas, - atsakiau žinodamas, kad tai ir teisyb?, ir ne. - Tiktai mes patys suteikiame viskam vert?.

Jeigu nors kartÄ… tikrai suprastume, kas yra gyvenimas, tikrai sprogtume!

All at once I feel utterly dejected. "What was the good of it all, Mother?" I say. She strokes my hand. "It must have been for some good, Ernst. The Father in heaven knows, you may be sure of that.

Wir haben den Sinn für andere Zusammenhänge verloren, weil sie künstlich sind. Nur die Tatsachen sind richtig und wichtig für uns.

Geriau mirti tada, kai dar nori gyventi, negu tada, kai jau nori mirti.

Nach den Jahren hart am Tode war der Wein nicht nur Wein, das Silber nicht nur Silber, die Musik, die von irgendwoher in den Raum sickerte, nicht nur Musik, und Elisabeth nicht nur Elisabeth - sie alle waren Symbole jenes anderen Lebens, des Lebens ohne Töten und Zerstören, des Lebens um des Lebens willen, das schon fast zu einer Mythe und zu einem hoffnungslosen Traum geworden war.