Quotes About Meaning

Es totalmente arbitrario considerar como una totalidad, como un todo, la suma de lo que experimentamos de una cosa por medio de la mera percepción, y considerar como algo añadido, sin relación alguna con esa misma cosa, aquello que resulta de la contemplación pensante.

It isn't what you say so much. It's what you mean when you say it.

and with an almost audible click he felt the wheels of his being lock up anew on the world without. Things that rode meaningless on the eyeball an instant before slid into proper proportion. Roads were meant to be walked upon, houses to be lived in, cattle to be driven, fields to be tilled, and men and women to be talked to. They were all real and true—solidly

It's clever, but is it art?

Las palabras constituyen la droga más potente que haya inventado la humanidad.

Cuvintele sunt cel mai important drog utilizat de omenire.

Whether she died in vain or not is for me to decide.- Sesshomaru

Things like 'world conquest' don't mean very much to me. Isn't a desire to tenaciously pick on a romantic rival easier to understand?

If we persist in distinguishing and holding apart myth and history, we are in danger of missing the story's own sense of truth.

Looking at them words going down on this paper right this minim I know there aint no such thing there aint no only my self you all ways have every 1 and every thing on your back.

This is the real thing,' said Caroline. 'It's the deepest, the profoundist. It's the big bazonga, it's really existential.' OK, I said, watching a distant sweeper with a faulty program banging again and again into the information kiosk, 'just don't tell me it's a metaphor, OK?

Books will always have the last word, even if nobody is around to read them.

Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories.

And what does it mean to waste time anyway? If you waste time is it lost forever?

Premonitions are coincidences waiting to happen," he said, without looking up. "I

A name, Ruth thought, could be either a ghost or a portent depending upon which side of time you were standing.

And what does it mean to waste time anyway? If you waste time is it lost forever? And if time is lost forever, what does that mean? It's not like you get to die any sooner, right?

The eternal now," he said. "She wanted to catch it, remember? To pin it down. That was the point." "Of writing?" "Or suicide.

The first words of a book are of utmost importance. The moment of encounter, when a reader turns to that first page and reads those opening words, it's like locking eyes or touching someone's hand for the first time, and we feel it, too. Books don't have eyes or hands, it's true, but when a book and a reader are meant for each other, both of them know it

Ze truth about stories is that is all we are.' A famous Cherokee writer named Thomas King once said this. We are ze stories we tell ourselves, Benny-boy. We meck ourselves up. We meck each other up, too." I wondered if the Aleph was in his poem, or if I was. That would be weird, to be in someone else's poem, or someone else's book.

You are our collaborators, our conspirators, breathing new life into us. And because every reader is unique, each of you makes each of us mean differently, regardless of what's written on our pages. Thus, one book, when read by different readers, becomes different books, becomes an ever-changing array of books that flows through human consciousness like a wave. Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli. According to the capabilities of the reader, books have their own destinies.

But what a sweet story it is! And in the end, to us, that's what really matters. That's what books are for, after all, to tell your stories, to hold them and keep them safe between our covers for as long as we're able. We do our best to bring you pleasure and sustain your belief in the gravity of being human. We care about your feelings and believe in you completely.

Suicide feels like One Authentic Thing. Suicide feels like Meaning of Life. Suicide feels like having the Last Word. Suicide feels like stopping Time Forever. But of course this is all just delusion, too! Suicide is just part of life, so it is part of the delusion.

I've always thought of writing as the opposite of suicide,' she said. 'That writing was about immortality. Defeating death, or at least forestalling it.