Quotes About Meaning

The peculiar situation of the anthropological fieldworker, participating simultaneously in two distinct worlds of meaning and action, requires that he relate to his research subjects as an "outsider," trying to "learn" and penetrate their way of life, while relating to his own culture as a kind of metaphorical "native." To both groups he is a professional stranger, a person who holds himself aloof from their lives in order to gain perspective.

El verbo puede crearse su propia carne, como el caracol su concha: pero la carne sola jamás creará al verbo, y como la estatua existirá sin alma.

Qué es eso? —preguntó. —Señor, es un poeta.

Ah! Como as entrelinhas são importantes! É nelas que estão escritas as coisas que só a alma pode entender.

A morte exige brevidade de palavras, porque o tempo é curto. E, sendo curto o tempo, as palavras devem dizer o essencial.

o suicida prepara o seu suicídio como uma obra de arte.

A alma é um cenário. Por vezes, ela é como uma manhã brilhante e fresca, inundada de alegria. Por vezes, ela é como um pôr de sol, triste e nostálgico. A vida é assim. Mas, se é manhã brilhante o tempo todo, alguma coisa está errada. Tristeza é preciso. A tristeza torna as pessoas mais ternas. Se é crepúsculo o tempo todo, alguma coisa não está bem. Alegria é preciso. Alegria é a chama que dá vontade de viver.

Mas a vida humana não se mede por batidas cardíacas ou ondas cerebrais. A vida humana só é humana enquanto existe a possibilidade de beleza e riso. Sem beleza e sem risos a vida humana acabou.

Doce morrer no mar? Talvez. Melhor morrer no mistério indecifrável do mar que morrer as mortes banais da terra seca.

Mas a alma não sabe o que é isso, o não existir. Aquilo que é sentido existe. A alma é um lugar assombrado onde moram as mais estranhas criaturas que, sem existirem, existem.

Now nothing is anything, and everything is nothingness, just the cannons of pressure going off in my head. It's as if your old personality has been sucked out so slowly that you didn't notice its departure. Very slowly it's been stolen away and each day you remember less and less of who you are and what you feel.

My final word on this is that only if you find something you love doing and then do it, is life worth living.

W isn't Wilhelmina: it stand for Walt! It's a sign specially for me ...

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Heaven is high and earth wide. If you ride three feet higher above the ground than other men, you will know what that means.

When reason has followed its road to the end, the point of crisis is reached and man is brought to the great question mark over his own existence.

Little is accomplished if one tries to understand these words theoretically. Much more can be gained when one creates sacred moments in life when one is willing to energetically fill one's soul with the living content of such words.

It's clever, but is it Art?

A vast meaning is unfolded in each line, with such power that a sentence only a line long would suffice for a whole life's training.

Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.

After all, when the behavior of another person leaves you no choice but to kill them, their murder is simply involuntary suicide.

The first condition of happiness is that a man must find joy in his work. Unless the work brings joy, the tedium of an aimless life can be soul-destroying. Something

We Must Love Someone We Must Love Someone If we are to justify Our presence on this earth. We must keep loving all our days, Someone, anyone, anywhere Outside our selves; For even the sarus crane Will grieve over its lost companion, And the seal its mate. Somewhere in life There must be someone To take your hand And share the torrid day. Without the touch of love There is no life, and we must fade away.

We said nothing for some time but we couldn't have been more eloquent.