Quotes About Meaning

I believe that there is a reason for everything that happens to us, everything we do, every choice we make. I

People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.

Could a writer understand how her book had saved someone long ago, when the world was a fragile, scary place and the people she loved weren't in it anymore? Could a writer understand that her book had mattered more than anything?

It mattered most to me then because of where I was in my life. So in a way, there isn't just one book that matters most, there might be several, or even a dozen.

I believe that, magically, the book we are supposed to read somehow appears in our hands at just the right time.

Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.' ~pg 107; Adam on friendship

I want to know what to do," he hears himself say, and, like the decision to write to the co-pilot's wife, the statement is a relief. He wants to know what to do. She taps the center of his hand. "That's easy. The same thing we all must do. Take stock of who we are, and what we have, and then use it for good.

Since death is certain, but the time of death is uncertain, what is the most important thing?

If you are furious, and you've exhausted your reasoned argument but still want to get a powerful emotion across, then you might say, Fuck you. What I object to is the use of these impactful words as fillers, such as when people say, What the fuck are you doing? That's lazy. How is fuck helping that particular sentence

They were too showy, too public. Deep love between two people was a private, wordless endeavor,

This is why we live. She and William held

His body was now more or less irrelevant. Arash studied him. "I heard you're

Meaning bad isn't the issue. Meaning you do what you do. Not without consequences for other people, of course, sometimes very grave ones. But it's not very helpful to regard your choices as a series of right or wrong moves. They don't define you as much as you define them

True Tenderness" True tenderness is silent and can't be mistaken for anything else. In vain with earnest desire you cover my shoulders with fur; In vain you try to persuade me of the merits of first love. But I know too well the meaning of your persistent burning glances.

Literature is an act which gives meaning to experience.

Symbolism, originally intended as a countermovement to naturalism, actually turned out to be a variation of it rather than its antithesis.

moment of the fulcrum, the pivot, the turnaround, the instant when the meaning of it all will appear.

She admonished him, saying 'I think I hate you,' which meant she didn't because 'I think I hate you' is the same as 'probably I hate you', which is the same as 'I don't know if I hate you', which is the same as 'I don't hate you, oh my God, my love, I love you, still love you, always, always have I loved you and never have I stopped loving you'.

He was convinced, I could see, that this time 'round his words would produce quite the opposite effect on me, as in favorable, as in advantageous, especially as I'd had two brothers in the renouncers myself.

This was not the way of longest friend. Everything meant something to her. Everything was of use to her. Or to be made of use. To be stored away for utility at some future opportunistic date.

Still, I didn't like the implication that I had contracted an incurable beyond the pale.

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

We spend so much time bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.

On est souvent trompe en amour, souvent blesse et souvent malheureux, mais on aime. Et, quand on est sur le bord de sa tombe, on se retourne pour regarder en arriere et on se dit: J'ai souffert souvent, je me suis trompe quelquefois, mais j'ai aime. C'est moi que ai vecu, et non pas un etre factice cree par mon orgueil et mon ennui. Elle aime l'amour a la folie et c'est ca qui fait toute sa vulnerabilite. Et toute sa beaute, aussi.