Quotes About Meaning

All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.

Music has an intrinsic meaning, which has always been mysterious to me.

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

What art is, in reality, is this missing link, not the links which exist. It's not what you see that is art; art is the gap.

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

A psychoneurosis must be understood, ultimately, as the suffering of a soul which has not discovered its meaning.

I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.

If religion bends to society's whims, like Peter Tatchell himself, it ceases to be religious, so what's the point?

I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.

Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House.

When I write lyrics for Priest, I'm writing them for Priest. I'm not writing them for me.

Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.

I make art primarily for myself and to show my friends, so I guess it's important to make art that they can connect to.

Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.

I've always had the same principle for choosing roles, which is to try and make movies that I would pay to see. As I get older, that's meant different things.

I learned early on about the real meaning of equity and inclusion, and that when those guiding principles are not met, they can have devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities.

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.

Meaning comes from the capacity to see what is not in some simple, objective sense there on the printed page.

We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

Living in the light of eternity changes your priorities.