Quotes About Meaning

Life's metaphors are God's instructions.

Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a chapter out of a book.

What would God have me do with my life?

What is art but the denial of life?

A life of short duration...could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

In an artwork you're always looking for artistic decisions, so an ashtray is perfect. An ashtray has got life and death.

Happiness is not the same as life satisfaction, while neither are identical to what we might call flourishing.

The question is what I wanted to do with the new life God has given me. This is the mission I want to take on.

You experience your soul each time you sense yourself as more than a mind and body, your life as meaningful, or you feel that you have gifts to give and you long to give them.

For death is life. It is only living that is lifeless.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.

Hope is not a feeling of certainty that everything ends well. Hope is just a feeling that life and work have a meaning.

Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art.

The abundance of our lives is not determined by how long we live, but how well we live. Christ makes abundant life possible if we choose to live it now.