Quotes About Meaning

He should've gone with his father's recommendation and walked in wearing a T-shirt that read "You're only Jealous Because the Voices are Talking to Me.

I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean.

I read, therefore, I matter.

No coincidence, no story.

Who can name a death that was not tragic?" the speaker asks. "Is there a way for us to find meaning in the losses we've suffered? Who can say that one soul has a heavier grievance than another? We were all victims. We need to forgive each other." Remember? Yes. Forgive? No.

Maybe our lives are like gigantic jigsaw puzzles. You find the right piece and suddenly the whole picture has meaning.

comprendo que no valoraba el amor más importante: el que surge de lo más profundo del corazón.

What was the purpose of being wrapped like a present if you had no feelings for the person you were being given to?

I am here for a reason. This is no haphazard mistake. What good can I do with what I have?

For what other reason might we cling to objects, old photographs, tarnished jewelry, yellowed letters? They're charms, little pieces of magic. When we touch them, we regain for a second what time has stolen or worn away.

All this time, she'd wondered how she could live knowing what darkness awaited. With Shawn, she realized all of it, light and dark, life and death, was one terrible, beautiful mingle, and that the whole point was to just live well, while you could.

But words are all we have, their essence the only passage into our centers, the only way we can make people feel what we feel

What did it really mean to love someone? Did it have to last forever to have existed at all?

Is there anyone dearer than the children of people you love, especially when you don't have your own?

Story is life, Miss Graves," he said. She'd heard him say that a million times. She finally understood what he meant.

When life is reduced to the survival of someone you love, everything else reveals itself as trivial.

If a pattern of triangles keeps repeating, then it is a very strong message, and we need to listen to what it is trying to tell us.

They're friendship pebbles. They mean that we're best friends-if you want to be.

Children may not understand all that's happening below the surface of a story. It doesn't matter. Because even though they may not be able to define or verbalize it, they sense there's something more than meets the eye; on an almost subliminal level, they're aware of a richness of texture, or meaning and emotion -- a richness that, in a great book, is inexhaustible. And the child may well come back to it again and again, perhaps long after he's stopped being a child.

All talk and discussion about God (theo-logy means god-talk) is really an exercise in human self-understanding.

To identify faith with the holding of a certain number of beliefs that come to us from the distant past actually makes a mockery of Christian faith and reduces it to the schoolboy's definition: "Faith is believing things you know ain't true".

It was so important to him, and he made it important to me: poetry, and language, and how we use it to remind ourselves of how our lives should be lived . . .

Precision of language, Jonah.

It's a funny thing about names, how they become a part of someone.