Quotes About Meaning

It is not appropriate to ask a Buddhist, "What is the purpose of life?" because the question suggests that somewhere out there, perhaps in a cave or on a mountaintop, an ultimate purpose exists. The

I like a twist of meaning.

Be obscure clearly.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

Look on this cast, and know the hand That bore a nation in its hold; From this mute witness understand What Lincoln was - how large of mould.

life's not a paragraph And death i think is no parenthesis

and the reason that I laugh and breathe is oh love

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

The universe is seeming really huge right now. I need something to hold on to.

We burned not a home, but a symbol. We burned a symbol to the ground.

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools. I like a twist of meaning. I endure.

I guess that is why they've been here. I needed them.

It is true I suffer migraines since my accident. It is true I do not suffer fools. I like a twist of meaning. You see? Suffer migraines. Do not suffer fools. The word means almost the same as it did in the previous sentence, but not quite. Suffer. You could say it means endure, but that's not exactly right.

The universe is seeming really huge right now," he told me. "I need something to hold on to.

Yet another technique of the neglected positivist is to impose a new meaning on a word that exists but, through the convolutions of grammar, doesn't technically mean what you are deciding it means. The neglected positive of incriminate is criminate, which actually, technically means the same thing as incriminate—because the in- isn't really making a negative in this case—but it is much more amusing if you use it to mean the opposite.

I don't believe in destiny or soul mates or the supernatural. I just mean we understood each other. All the way.

Being and Nothingness by Sartre.

What?" Frankie didn't think it was a word. She thought it was—she thought it was what she'd later call a "neglected positive.

the universe was so good because you were in it.

When there's a negative word or expression-immaculate, for example-but the positive is almost never used, and you choose to use it, you become rather amusing. Or pretentious. Or pretentiously amusing, which can sometimes be good. In any case, you are uncovering a buried word.

This is therapy, Ruby." Doctor Z sounded exasperated. "It might be helpful for you to try to articulate something about something.

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!