Quotes About Meaning

Y Erdosain remiró aquel rostro casi redondo, con laxitud de paz, y en la que sólo denunciaba al hombre de acción de chispa burlona, movediza, en el fondo de los ojos, y ese movimiento de levantar una ceja más que otra al escuchar al que hablaba. Erdosain distinguió a un costado, entre el saco y la camisa de seda que usaba el Rufián, el cabo negro de un revólver. Indudablemente, en la vida, los rostros significan poca cosa.

No one pays attention to these killings, but the secret of the world is hidden in them.

Uno no termina de leer, aunque los libros se acaben, de la misma manera que uno no termina de vivir, aunque la muerte sea un hecho cierto.

I wrote this book for the ghosts, who, because they're outside of time, are the only ones with time. After the last rereading (just now), I realize that time isn't the only thing that matters, time isn't the only source of terror. Pleasure can be terrifying too, and so can courage.

Used in a personal sense, the phrase 'achieve an end' seemed to her a small-minded snare. She preferred the word life , and, on rare occasions, happiness .

This story is very simple, although it could have been very complicated. Also, it's incomplete, because stories like this don't have an ending.

Not reading, it might be said, was the highest expression of atheism, or at least of atheism as he conceived of it. If you don't believe in God, how do you believe in a fucking book?

I too believe in the intrinsic goodness of human beings, but it means nothing.

Escribí este libro para mí mismo, y ni de eso estoy muy seguro. Durante mucho tiempo sólo fueron páginas sueltas que releía y tal vez corregía convencido de que no tenía tiempo. ¿Pero tiempo para qué? Era incapaz de explicarlo con precisión. Escribí este libro para los fantasmas, que son los únicos que tienen tiempo porque están fuera del tiempo.

There are no rare texts. Wretched ones, to be sure, and luminous ones, but none of them rare.

Y sin embargo cuando hablamos, digamos, cuando hablamos de hombre a hombre. Suena horrible, pero ese es el nombre de ese tipo de conversación crepuscular. Me dejo entender que estaba allí para hacerse matar, que supongo no es lo mismo que estar allí para matarte o para suicidarte. El matiz está en que no te tomas la molestia de hacerlo tu mismo

Ich las, aber die Worte zogen vorüber wie unbegreifliche Käfer.

I used to read everything, Professor, I read all the time. Now all I read is poetry. Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game. I don't know if you follow me, Professor. Only poetry—and let me be clear, only some of it—is good for you, only poetry isn't shit.

En el camino de los perros mi alma encontró a mi corazón.

Coincidence, if you'll permit the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures.

A life in which the gods are not invited is not worth living. It will be quieter, but there won't be any stories.

Yahweh was, among many other things, an allegorist.

I truly believe finding one's purpose is the true elixir of youth.

I do not wish integrity to be taken in some vague metaphorical sense; I mean it quite literally.

the extent of Ronchamp's resemblance to other things is exceptionally broad. Nor is it only an issue of extent. More is at stake. The nature of the building alters drastically when what it resembles cannot be traced back to Le Corbusier's mind; it becomes less predictable and its meaning is less stable.

Irish and English are so widely separated in their mode of expression that nothing like a literal rendering from one language to the other is possible.

But a living is not a life.

All of life, I wanted to tell him, is in our minds. Where else does it take place, where else do we add up what it means to us and subtract what we have lost? An event is just an event until some person attaches meaning to it.

Sometimes thanking someone is more important to the person giving the thanks than the one who receives it.