Quotes About Meaning

You know I do know how he feels. He can't believe it didn't mean anything.

I suppose it is just the loss of the immortality, he thought. Well, in a way that is quite a lot to lose.

Todos precisam ter alguém para conversar - disse a mulher. - Antes, tínhamos a religião e outras coisas sem sentido. Agora, cada um precisa ter com quem falar abertamente. Pois quanto mais bravura alguém tiver, mais solitário vai ficando.

I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.

Trying to write something of permanent value is a full-time job.

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Ahora: una palabra curiosa para expresar todo un mundo y toda una vida

When you stop you are as empty, and at the same time never empty but filling, as when you have made love to someone you love. Nothing can hurt you, nothing can happen, nothing means anything until the next day when you do it again. It is the wait until the next day that is hard to get through.

I am suggesting is that the past, as we remember it, has little to do with causal or determining factors that have in some way made, or influenced, us as we are today. Rather, the remembered past provides us with the means to maintain, or validate, who we are today and to give focus and direction to who we might wish to become at some future point in time.

Labi b?tu, ja var?tu nopirkt k?du drusci?u laimes. Ja b?tu k?da vieta, kur to p?rdod.

Und könnte [das Ich] eine Leere, eine Losgelassenheit, eine disparate, gar absurde Schranke auch noch spüren, wenn keine Bewegung in ihm wäre, die an die Schranke stößt? […] Die Akte des Überschreitens selber lassen sich jedenfalls nicht nihilisieren, nicht einmal dort, wo die härteste Gegenutopie: der Tod jedes irdische Dunkel so unermesslich überbietet, unterbietet.

The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.

The past is preserved only in darkness, the future is not raised to the level of an image, as something which can be anticipated. It is the symbolic expression which first creates the possibility of looking backward and looking forward... What occurred in the past, now separated out from the totality of representations, no longer passes away, once the sounds of language have placed their seals on it and given it a certain stamp (Wesen und Wirkung des Symbolbegriffs).

Die Rache der Sprache ist das Gedicht

Art exists to remind us that we have a soul, and all we need to be an artist is a soul.

Though we may create many beautiful works of art, the most important works of art to which we will ever give ourselves are the lives we live.

Nietzsche's observation, "He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how.

This journey is about ensuring that when we come to the end of our lives, we will arrive at our final moments with no regret.

Jesus is being lost in a religion bearing His name.

Asking why isn't about the survival of the fittest; it is about the soul's craving for meaning.

En un momento como el actual, en el que los ojos apenas se posan un instante en un tema antes de saltar a otro más escandaloso, más llamativo, los libros han de recuperar el ritmo lento, la necesidad de transcendencia imprescindible para que la reflexión y el aprendizaje brinden un mínimo de sentido a la sociedad moderna.

Todo libro ha de hacer pedazos el silencio.

Isten nem azért van, mondja nagymama, hogy könnyítsen a halálon. Hogy az könnyebb legyen. Hanem hogy legyen értelme. És akkor van értelme, ha az Å' halálának is van értelme.

We no longer get work out of our children; today we get meaning.