Quotes About Meaning

While history might be full of exemplary fathers, recorded history is not where to find them.

Um, I asked, isn't the whole point about being a slave that you don't have a choice to be anything else? Prettying up the word slave with the adjective-noun constructions makes enslaved African sound nonchalant. As in Those were the cabins of the jolly leprechauns.

Washington was referring to his military family or aides-de-camp, the same way John Adams described the aide Alexander Hamilton as "one of General Washington's Family." So when Washington said "family," he meant "chummy minion." The orphaned Lafayette heard "son.

You hold substance in my psyche

hidup yang tak teruji tak layak dijalani

That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst.

Ik begreep opeens dat er geen tussenweg was tussen niet-bestaan en deze weemakende overdadigheid. Als je bestond, moest je *bestaan tot op dat punt*, tot aan de verschimmeling, het zwellen, tot aan de obsceniteit. In een andere wereld behouden cirkels, melodieën, hun zuivere, strakke lijnen. Maar het bestaan is een aftakelingsproces.

Cada instante aparece para traer los siguientes. Me aferro a cada instante con toda el alma; sé que es único, irremplazable, y sin embargo no movería un dedo para impedir su aniquilación.

En el fondo, ¿qué busco? No sé.

Ya no puedo recibir de estas soledades trágicas nada más que un poco de pureza vacía.

Existence is prior to essence.

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

But I have come to realize that the true meaning of pilgrimage is to live free from any attachments, habits, prejudices. Free from physical and mental clutter. Making an outer journey is a reminder of an inner journey, and I discovered that I am always on a pilgrimage. Life is a journey. I want to travel through life as a pilgrim.

You don't know the meaning of true love if you think it can be deliberately selected. You just love, that's all. A natural force, irresistible.

I don't actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I'm beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life without input from your soul.

And what about all the good I have in my heart—doesn't it mean anything?

He yelled, Charlie, you know where I am, don't you? All right, Charlie, this isn't literature. This is life.

Charlie, you know where I am, don't you? All right, Charlie, this isn't literature. This is life.

As the victim of those impulses she must be looking in the paper for his obituary.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are, and what this life is for.

And this is the unwritten history of man, his unseen, negative accomplishment, his power to do without gratification for himself provided there is something great, something into which his being, and all beings can go. He does not need meaning as long as such intensity has scope. Because then it is self-evident; it is meaning.

Death is going to take the boundaries away from us, that we should no more be persons. That's what death is about. When that is what life also wants to be about, how can you feel except rebellious?

Sre?a je besmislen pa ?ak i škodljiv pojam ako nije doista sveobuhvatna...

More than human, can you have any use for life? Less than human, you don't either.