Quotes About Meaning

All fine films, novels, and plays, through all shades of the comic and the tragic, entertain when they give the audience a fresh model of life empowered with an affective meaning.

La escena no trata de lo que parece tratar en la escena. Trata de otra cosa.

Story is metaphor for life.

Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. Then, like the hero of the fable, your dance will dazzle the world.

while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.

Good story' means something worth telling that the world wants to hear. Finding this is your lonely task...But the love of a good story, of terrific characters and a world driven by your passion, courage, and creative gifts is still not enough. Your goal must be a good story well told.

Deus ex machina not only erases all meaning and emotion, it's an insult to the audience. Each of us knows we must choose and act, for better or worse, to determine the meaning of our lives...Deus ex machina is an insult because it is a lie.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

Whereas life separates meaning from emotion, art unites them. Story is an instrument by which you create such epiphanies at will, the phenomenon known as aesthetic emotion...Life on its own, without art to shape it, leaves you in confusion and chaos, but aesthetic emotion harmonizes what you know with what you feel to give you a heightened awareness and a sureness of your place in reality.

Given the choice between trivial material brilliantly told versus profound material badly told, an audience will always choose the trivial told brilliantly.

Awe is an intuition of the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.

Ah, all these thoughts, all this peculiar yearning, this seeking, this stretching out of hands toward a meaning. Let it all dream, let it all sleep. I'll simply let it come. Let it come.

Wherever poesie can be felt, all poetic touches are superfluous.

I cannot live and at the same time despise my life. I must find myself a life, a new life, even if all of life consists only of an endless search for life.

Sevgili kardeÅŸim ÅŸu anda bir hiçsin. Fakat genç iken insan zaten bir hiç olmal? çünkü hiç bir ÅŸey erkenden anlam kazanmak kadar y?k?c? olamaz.

The emotional intensity of a significant relationship is a stimulus that intensifies the drive toward togetherness. As each partner finds personal meaning in the relationship, the togetherness force becomes more intense, as though some sort of gravitational force were operating.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

The biggest danger in life is that the food of humans is all made of souls.

The beauty of ethics is that nobody can be perfectly certain about what it includes or even what it means.

I learned later that the former operator of Abdullah had been a dwarf who cannot have been fastidious about his person, and there was a strong whiff of hot dwarf as I grew hotter myself.

Are you going to be just kind of a walking monument to a job, or are you going to have some kind of really significant inner life of your own? Because the external things — the job, the house, the this, the that — do not really fill the place inside.

She had not meant to name them, but she could not help herself; and having done so she thought, Let their names be symbols that their lives are worth the keeping. Let them struggle a little the harder, to keep their names.

Maybe I should try to be grateful at having been spared intimacy with the most dangerous of the Others. Gave a whole new meaning to the phrase 'under the dark.

Tales are as much the necessary fabric of our lives as our bodies are.