Quotes About Meaning

in psychology I do not believe "stress" encompasses the rich meaning of anxiety.

It is getting late. Shall we ever be asked for? Are we simply Not wanted at all? {6}" What has been lost is the capacity to experience and have faith in one's self as a worthy and unique being, and at the same time the capacity for faith in, and meaningful communication with, other selves, namely one's fellow-men.

Ma io non ci tengo tanto a essere felice, preferisco ancora la vita. La felicità è una bella schifezza e una carogna e bisognerebbe insegnarle a vivere. Non siamo della stessa razza, io e lei, e a me non me ne frega niente.

To 'live', to be truly alive, it is not enough simply to breathe, to suffer, nor even to be happy; life is a secret that cannot be discovered on one's own. True living is done in pairs.

I searched for something to say, since you always have to fall back on words to prevent silence from speaking too loudly..

I aimed as well as I could.' 'So as not to kill?' ''You never teach a man anything by killing him. On the contrary, you make him forget everything.

Ben o kendi can?na k?yanlar?n türünden bir kiÅŸi deÄŸilim, öyle durup dururken ve ölüm bir baÅŸka yerde meÅŸgulken; ilginç deÄŸildim, bir toplu k?y?m ve bir sigara söz konusu deÄŸildi.

Când ai iubit o femeie din adâncul tuturor ochilor, din adâncul tuturor dimineÈ›ilor, p?durilor, câmpiilor, izvoarelor È™i p?s?rilor, È™tii c? înc? nu ai iubit-o destul È™i c? lumea este doar un început pentru tot ce-È›i mai r?mâne s? faci.

he also noticed that certain things which he felt deeply changed their meaning at the touch of words, so that he could no longer recognize them himself as he spoke. So that indeed he often wondered whether thinking were enough, whether thoughts were not a mere groping for something that was forever out of reach...

He didn't believe in God, but he believed even less in cheapness. Besides, life's never been anything else except a brief, frightened, bewildered shopping expedition.

Rien ne vaut la peine d'être vécu qui n'est pas d'abord une oeuvre d'imagination, ou alors la mer ne serait plus que de l'eau salée...

There is, of course, Niemen, in Switzerland, and Horsschitt, in Germany... It all depends on what you mean by 'love'.

He had even tried the violin a few years earlier. Anything to switch talents, but there was no escape. The compulsion was identical to that of any composer or poet for whom the meaning of his life was creation. One could only wonder what Picasso would have done to the world if he had been born a physicist. Terrifying thought . . .

In Sanskrit, there exists no word for 'The Individual' (L'Individu). En Grèce antique, il n'y avait aucun mot pour dire 'Devoir' (Duty). In French, the word for 'Wife' is the same as the word for 'Woman.' En anglais, nous n'avons aucun mot semblable à l'exquise 'Jouissance!

If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic.

The profoundest motive which leads us toward the saints is the desire simply to be in their company — to abide with them. It is love seeking the communion of those who have dedicated their lives to love and who are now fulfilled in it; it is the desire for that holy atmosphere in which the soul can breathe and for the mysterious current which nourishes it; it is the longing for the answer to the ultimate meaning of existence.

The secular critique of communalism is not an opposition to religion but to the abuse of religion.

Pain is the price we pay for memory. It's some kind of sin to forget what hurts, as much as it is to forget what makes us smile. Suffering has its meaning, and memory has its graces.

You can probably also call it poetic justice, even though it doesn't rhyme.

The Bible is no different. The goal isn't to repeat or recite the Bible. The Bible has to live through the music I am making with my life.

Silence is sometimes the only way to share the unsharable.

September 11, 2001 turned out to be that "Pearl Harbor event" the neoconservatives were hoping for in order to prepare the American people to support the foreign policy for which the neocons longed.

He understood shock value: he frequently promised to demonstrate what he meant by "cannibalism" by eating a baby onstage, if someone would hand him one. No one ever did.

Here was a demonstration of what Howells maintained—at just about this time—was his most liberating literary strength, his "single-minded use of words, which he employs as Grant did to express the plain, straight meaning their common acceptance has given them . . . He writes English as if it were a primitive and not a derivative language, without Gothic or Latin or Greek behind it."13