Quotes About Meaning

The regime isn't protecting Christians, it's only protecting itself. Assad isn't protecting Alawites, either. He's exploiting Alawites.

The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels grateful and has no one to thank.

She'd heard once that shaping your lips into a smile whether you meant it or not made your words sound happier.

The only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you. —W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

If you're purely after facts, please buy yourself the phone directory of Manhattan. It has four million times correct facts. But it doesn't illuminate.

A little sentence can contain a big story.

A sentence is a set of words expressing themselves. A book is a set of words put together to change your consciousness."

Behind every sentence without the author, there is a writer.

Dietro la natura morta c'è un artista vivente.

There is a writer in every sentence without the author.

The artist's signature shows the whole story on a white canvas."

There's a reason for everything, if it weren't for the stars, there would be no universe.

He was some kind of a man... What does it matter what you say about people?" -- Marlene Dietrich's character in Touch Of Evil, originally written by Whit Masterson as Badge Of Evil. One of the best closing sequences you'll see in classical Hollywood

Is dirt nice? Is death nice? Above all is dying nice? And, in the end, we must ask, is God nice? I doubt it.

I change from present to past tense and back again, and use an annoying passive voice throughout the whole thing.

Suicide is... the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

For this was the real desert where differences of race and colour, of wealth and social standing, are almost meaningless; where coverings of pretence are stripped away and basic truths emerge.

suicide is about life, being in fact the sincerest form of criticism life gets.

?nsan?n önemli anlarda dilsizle?en bir filozof oldu?unu ke?fetmesinden daha korkunç bir ?ey olamaz.

Race theorists, who are as old as imperialism itself, want to achieve racial purity in peoples whose interbreeding, as a result of the expansion of world economy, is so far advanced that racial purity can have meaning only to a numbskull.

Buna göre insan olman?n anlam?, insan olman?n bütün imkanlar?n? denemekte yat?yor olabilir.

Mutluluk önemlidir ama anlam daha önemlidir.

dokunman?n önemi öyle büyüktür ki, handiyse antropolojik diye tan?mlayabiliriz onu: insan olmak, ona ba?l?d?r. her bireyin hayat?nda iyice diplere at?lm?? bir çapad?r bu tecrübe: dokunuyor ve dokunuluyorsam, duyusal olarak, ruhsal olarak, zihinsel olarak ve ola ki a?k?n anlamda da, ya??yorumdur. Dokunma olmadan hayat? hissedemem. p.17

The greatest question of our time is not communism vs. individualism, not Europe vs. America, not even the East vs. the West; it is whether men can bear to live without God.