Quotes About Meaning

We all have to believe in something in order to exist successfully in this world and to enjoy our time here, which is short. I know that.

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.

'Khalifa' is Arabic, it means successor, leader, shining light. My granddad is Muslim and he gave me that name.

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing.

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

I always want to find meaning in stuff that sucks - I don't want it to be the end of the sentence.

It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you're dead, and I'm going to say that's got to be a letdown.

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

When money gets too far away from actual, physical, real equity and property it gets too abstract and too distantly derived and then suddenly it's not worth anything anymore. And the same is true of language.

There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.

I don't think we have to suffer personally to make great art. If you're prepared and organized, and you know what you're looking for, you can make great art and then go home.

I suffered from low self-esteem for much of my life. And now to feel like maybe something that I'm projecting or saying could mean something to someone means a lot to me.

Being a philosopher is to think, seek wisdom, and have principles that guide and influence what you do. It's to give meaning to things, find your way in the world, believe that in the end, in every instance, good will overcome evil, even if there's a bit of suffering along the way.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

People always say things like, Oh, well, he was suffering so much that he was better off dying. But that's not true. You're always better off living.

In all three cases, and for most human beings, the problem of suffering poses no difficult problem at all: one has a world picture in which suffering has its place, a world picture that takes suffering into account.

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

In the Buddhist scriptures, it said many births cause suffering, so Buddhism is not against family planning.

To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration.

I can't have cinema popcorn because it's all full of sugar, unfortunately. Well, I do have it and I don't have it. I love movie night and there's lots of healthy brands of popcorn nowadays, so it's good as a snack.

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music is speaking for itself.

My own position is, that it is largely up to the work itself to suggest the nature of these referential points without dimensions in and through the processes by which the distance between them is maintained.