Quotes About Meaning

Walter cares more about what a book has to say than he does about whether he can turn it into a stuffed animal or a calendar or a movie.

In the Fen, iffen they give you something special, it be a kick in your buttie.

Of course they needed to care. It was the meaning of everything. "And

Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it's become almost obsolete," his mother explained carefully.

The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love," Jonas whispered.

Age is a meaningless commodity in most instances.

Tú insinuabas, Jonás, que quizá no era valiente? Yo no sé qué es la valentía: qué es, qué significa. Lo que sé es que yo estaba aquí paralizado por el horror, deshecho de no poder hacer nada. Y oí que Rosemary les decía que prefería ponerse ella misma la inyección. »Y lo hizo. Yo no miré. Miré para otro lado.

Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

It's important that someone celebrate our existence, she objected amiably. People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture.

It's a . . . transcendental act. Making life. . . . 'By this act, I bring one death into the world.' One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between. . . . Our children change us . . . whether they live or not.

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.

If there's no game, isn't winning a pretty meaningless concept?

I thought you saw meaning in that sort of thing, said Vorkosigan. In the abstract. Most days it's just stumbling around in the dark with the rest of creation, smashing into things and wondering why it hurts.

He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities. I

People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large.

Pero el dolor... no me parece motivo suficiente para dejar que la vida pase de largo. Cuando uno está muerto no siente dolor. Al igual que el tiempo, el dolor pasará de todos modos. La pregunta es, ¿cuántos momentos gloriosos eres capaz de arrebatarle a la vida a pesar del dolor?

God made them, they must have a purpose, but then, God made lions, wolves, and head lice, too.

Or that they believed you would not be here to inflict the consequences," said Ekaterin. Had they meant Vorkosigan to die, too? Or . . . what? "Oh, nice. That's reassuring." He bit rather aggressively into the last of his sandwich. She rested her chin on her hand and regarded him with wry curiosity. "Does ImpSec know you babble like this?

No me sorprendería. El hermano de milord, Mark, dice que la integridad es una enfermedad, y tan sólo puede contagiártela alguien que la padece.

A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.

Cards that have, in the past, borne the titles Justice, Strength, Temperance, and Judgment (or Last Judgment) are, in the Thoth Tarot, respectively named Adjustment, Lust, Art, and The Aeon. Crowley

The Tree of Life—This figure must be studied very carefully, for it is the basis of the whole system on which the Tarot is based. It is quite impossible to give a complete explanation of this figure, because (for one thing) it is quite universal. Therefore it cannot mean the same to any one person as to any other.78

And you can shove your apology. If it can come out of your damned mouth, then you can stand by it.

I have everything I thought was important and nothing that really is. -Lily Francone