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Quotes About Meaning

I don't do anything with my life except romanticise and decay with indecision
~ Allen Ginsberg
he threw up his hands and wrote the Universe dont exist and died to prove it
~ Allen Ginsberg
What is obscenity? And to whom?
~ Allen Ginsberg
I have no other possessions of value but my soul.
~ Allen Ginsberg
senseless, senseless coughs of emotion
~ Allen Ginsberg
What Patriot wrote that shit?
~ Allen Ginsberg
The world knows the love that's in its breast as in the flower, the suffering lonely world.
~ Allen Ginsberg
but I will die only for poetry, that will save the world
~ Allen Ginsberg
The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.
~ Allison Pearson
A lo más que llegamos todos es a conferir una apariencia fortuita a nuestros actos más deliberados
~ Alvaro Pombo
What frightened me most was, I could no longer believe in my own life as a story. Everyone needs a story, a part to play in order to avoid the realization that life is without significance. How else do any of us survive? It's what makes life bearable, even interesting. When it becomes neither, people say you've lost the plot. Or just lost it.
~ Amanda Craig
Hash, x. There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is. Famous, adj. Conspicuously miserable. Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Philosophy - A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
~ Ambrose Bierce
LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.
~ Ambrose Bierce
ALLEGORY, n. A metaphor in three volumes and a tiger.
~ Ambrose Bierce
DICTIONARY, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.
~ Ambrose Bierce
ME, pro. The objectionable case of I. The personal pronoun in English has three cases, the dominative, the objectionable and the oppressive. Each is all three.
~ Ambrose Bierce
CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, a famous philosopher, author of the celebrated dictum, Cogito ergo sum—whereby he was pleased to suppose he demonstrated the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved, however, thus: Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum— I think that I think, therefore I think that I am; as close an approach to certainty as any philosopher has yet made.
~ Ambrose Bierce
ACADEMIA: Originalmente enramada en la que los filósofos buscaban un sentido en la naturaleza; ahora, escuela en la que los imbéciles buscan un significado en la filosofía.
~ Ambrose Bierce
People said it was a song about drugs, but John Lennon said the name came from a picture his son painted of a girl at school.
~ Aminatta Forna
Why do I do this?
~ Joe Abercrombie
One body might just be a coincidence. Two make a conspiracy.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I'm a man." Koll's shoulders sagged. "When did that happen?" "It just happens." "I wish I knew what it meant, being a man." "Guess it means something different for each one of us. The gods know I'm no sage, but if I've realized anything, it's that life isn't about making something perfect.
~ Joe Abercrombie