Quotes About Meaning

what's left of me if you take my work away? I'm not sure there's anything left." "Whaddya mean?

The important thing is to keep them pledging, he explained to his cohorts. It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.

The spirit gone, man is garbage.

Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for.

Well, maybe it's true,' Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. 'Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?' 'I do,' Dunbar told him. 'Why?' Clevinger asked. 'What else is there?

Superman?' Clevinger cried. 'Superman?' 'Supraman,' Yossarian corrected.

It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great. We are talking of only a painting.

The man who declares that survival at all costs is the end of existence is morally dead, because he's prepared to sacrifice all other values which give life its meaning. —SIDNEY HOOK

I don't,' she sobbed, bursting violently into tears. 'But the God I don't believe in is a good God, a just God, a merciful God. He's not the mean and stupid God you make Him out to be.

It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.

Well, maybe it's true, Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subdued tone. Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions to make it seem long. But in that event, who wants one? I do Dunbar told him. why? Clevinger asked. What else is there?

Open your eyes, Clevinger. It doesn't make a damned bit of difference who wins the war to someone who's dead

I used to get a big kick out of saving people's lives. Now I wonder what the hell's the point, since they all have to die anyway.

You're the new squadron commander,' Colonel Cathcart had shouted rudely across the railroad ditch to him. 'But don't think it means anything, because it doesn't. All it means is that you're the new squadron commander.

Well, maybe it is true, Clevinger conceded unwillingly in a subded tone. Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one? I do, Dunbar told him. Why? Clevinger asked. What else is there?

Imagine a man his age risking what little life he has for something so absurd as a country.

The important thing is to keep them pledging," he explained to his cohorts. "It doesn't matter whether they mean it or not. That's why they make little kids pledge allegiance even before they know what 'pledge' and 'allegiance' mean.

And anything worth dying for," answered the sacrilegious old man, "is certainly worth living for.

Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?' 'I do,' Dunbar told him. 'Why?' Clevinger asked. 'What else is there?

Over the ensuing decades and centuries, to be sure, the Bill of Rights has ascended to an elevated region in the American imagination. But in its own time, and in Madison's mind, it was only an essential epilogue that concluded a brilliant campaign to adjust the meaning of the American Revolution to a national scale.

I discovered that people are not really afraid of dying; they're afraid of not ever having lived, nor ever having deeply considered their life's higher purpose, and not ever having stepped into that purpose, and at least tried to make a difference in this world.

if in order to live it is necessary not to live, then what's it all for?

Every evil design that is meant by the evil characters will ultimately serve the greater good that is meant by God. Bilbo is meant to find the Ring by the Ring's Master (Sauron) but at the same time he is meant to find it by the One God who is the ultimate Master of the Master. It is on this deepest level of what is meant that we discover the deepest meaning in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.