Quotes About Meaning

We've all had that experience where we hear a song that we've liked for many years, and we finally hear what the writer tells us what it's about, and you're often disappointed.

A house, having been willfully purchased and furnished, tells us more than a body, and its description is a foremost resource of the art of fiction.

Life usually tells the best stories - but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean.

You don't eat a painting of an apple; you don't find it morally good. Instead, it tells you something strange about apples in themselves.

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal expression to the life that now we experience, follows from the very fact that here nothing final or individual is found expressed.

Don't let a temporal way to connect be a poor substitute for an eternal way. Without first being connected vertically to God, all the social networking contacts in the world won't be enough.

You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters.

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.

We are the creature of language, and through language we affirm ourselves, we find out about the world, including ourselves, through words, and we share with one another through language.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

Le piccole cose di ogni giorno, le sue banali mansioni, pensa mentre si prepara ai compiti mattutini, le forniranno tutto ciò di cui ha bisogno, spazio per negare se stessa, una strada per avvicinarla quotidianamente a Dio.

Qué quiere decir felices por siempre jamás, después de todo, sino una caída en lo ordinario, en la debilidad humana, acumulando desesperación, una caída de muerte?

People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection.

Books that have been owned by someone for many years for a specific purpose carry not just memories, (that is obvious), they also reveal their owner's true values; for the books we own may indicate something about us very different from what we think.

I want you to shave," he repeated. "I like the little girl look." It was then that June caught his meaning. "You mean...down...down there?" she asked. "Yeah, down there.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.' A story reflects life but also redeems it: assembled on the page, even unpredictable events can be plotted, their random scatter made part of a meaningful design.

People never change because they are under threat or under duress. Never. They change because they see something that makes their life seem valuable enough to start moving toward a life worth living. -Robert Downey Jr.

while an arrest of the Cowboy might bring the families of his victims justice, it would never bring them closure. Tracy

A purpose, I have learned, is rarely found, but revealed. Only when I do not search does the purpose become clear.

The English word sin is derived from the German term Sünde, which carries the connotation of sundering or dividing.

a world in which no sparrow falls unknown, but-so much for the neatness of our diagrams-it is the Father's will that sparrows fall.

The paradox of hell, as the most contradiction-filled one of all, will in all likelihood be patient of no exposition but the most contradictory.

La gente siempre me busca para que interprete sus sueños nocturnos. Si interpretasen también sus sueños de vigilia habría menos confusión en sus sueños nocturnos y serían capaces de entenderlos.

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.