Quotes About Meaning

Existe algo de terrivelmente injusto no fato de morrer no meio de uma boa história, antes de ter oportunidade de ver como tudo acaba. Em certo sentido, claro, eu acho que todo mundo sempre morre no meio de uma boa história. Da sua própria história. Ou da história dos seus filhos. Ou dos netos. A morte é sempre dureza para os viciados em narrativas.

The best works of art have a tendency to fall through time differently than human beings. They remember, but they also anticipate. A good piece can mean different things to different people at different times, and all of those meanings are true, even if they contradict one another.

Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.

He glanced over at the woman who had never been his wife but who had, incredibly, given him a child and made his life mean something. The idea that he had ever held her hand, or tasted her mouth, or made love to her, even now seemed as unlikely as being bitten by a radioactive spider.

That is the most wonderful sentence I have ever heard. I want that on my gravestone. Snuffleupagus was real. No more. Just that.

everyone always dies in the middle of a good story, in a sense. Your own story. Or the story of your children. Or your grandchildren. Death is a raw deal for narrative junkies." Around

That's what poetic speech is for--for the things that are true but don't make sense.

wondering how evil had come into the world or what happens to a person after he dies: an interesting philosophical exercise, but also curiously pointless, since evil and death happened, regardless of the why and the how and the what-it-meant.

Because love requires context.

One meaning of a symbol is not necessarily its meaning for all dreams. Also, do not get fixed on a symbol's single meaning because it may change as you grow in your walk with God. As you study the Word of God, you will draw less on your own life experience and more from a biblical reservoir of examples.

Sometimes, the things They say, the laws They make, the way the world spins doesn't make any sense at all... Which is exactly why you have to ask "Why?" and keep on asking until you get the TRUTH...

and realizes how there are all these moments, moments like just this one, there are all these moments, and how everyone lives their lives in these short, all-too-short moments. There are all these moments and what's so interesting, what makes them beautiful, is the fact that none of them last.

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.

Happy art is shallow. Sad art is deep.

But killing a man ought to mean something, even if you have to do it.

I should have been paying closer attention." "You did the best you could ," she said. "You are not a warrior, Perry, any more than I am a foreign exchange student.

WHAT, THEN, OF the secret of happiness? I know stories that touch upon it and even one by that name. But for me, the secret of happiness sits atop a long list of life's secrets. Perhaps that's the secret—there is no secret of happiness. Yet, we keep searching, maybe because the simple act of looking for it makes us happy. As

Art is bad when 'you see the intent and get put off.' (Goethe) In Tolstoy one is unaware of the intent, and sees only the thing itself. from the book, On Retranslating A Russian Classic Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

You weren't created to simply exist, to endure, or to go through the motions; you were created to be really alive.

The Puritans understood that the doctrines of atonement, justification, and reconciliation are meaningless apart from a true understanding of God who condemns sin, and atones for sinners, justifies them, and reconciles them to Himself.

What is happiness? George Bernard Shaw writes: "This is true joy in life: the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

Better than Hope," said Trace. "What the fuck is Hope? Hope for what? An icecream? A quick death?" Bemusement on the faces of several marines. "Uh, isn't that kind of the point?" Arime asked. "That Hope can mean anything you want it to?" "It means nothing," Trace said flatly. "I'm sick of happy bullshit that means nothing. Vacuous words for vacuous minds.

He said we're all going to die,' 'And what did you say?' 'I said that's why i'm here

And if words mean something to you, if an idea moves you, aren't you changed, just a little?