Quotes About Meaning

Work hard, work passionately, but apply your most precious asset—time—to what is most meaningful to you.

Christmas is telling time-wondering time. Wonder enough about it, and you'll know, and you'll tell about it.

Length is usually intensity. Not time.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Before the end of Time will be the end of History. Before the end of History will be the end of Art.

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

Any euphemism ceases to be euphemistic after a time and the true meaning begins to show through. It's a losing game, but we keep on trying.

It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.

The meaning of an artwork is changing depending on who's looking at it - depending on what culture, depending on what time, and so forth. It's alive.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.

Most important, Christmas should be a spiritual experience....Christmas is not just an event in time; it is a spiritual experience available to every person who hears the Gospel.

Most people are so busy living they neglect to take the time to ask why.

I still think that maybe the "afterlife" is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable. Maybe we are just matter, and matter gets recycled

The bodies were both a burden to get rid of and treasures he wanted to keep.

I myself, from the very beginning, Seemed to myself like someone's dream or delirium Or a reflection in someone else's mirror, Without flesh, without meaning, without a name. Already I knew the list of crimes That I was destined to commit.

In the aftermath of death Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.

There was a period when I believed stuff meant something. I thought that if you had matching side chairs and a sofa that harmonized and some beautiful lamps to light them you would have a home, that elegance signaled happiness.

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

She had filled her days mourning that shadow life, and it had no more meaning than the chattering of monkeys. Instead, these last few weeks, she had seen what might have been had she not felt perpetually done out of something better.

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition. —JAMES BALDWIN

I don't care that much about getting older, but I don't want to be forgotten, because to be remembered is to live and to be loved.

You could argue they'd lost their way, in their choices, their work, their marriage. But the truth was, there wasn't any way. There was just day after day, small stuff, idle conversation, scheduling. And then after a couple of decades it somehow added up to something, for good or for ill or for both.

And don't you, as do I, wish that person had left such a thing behind? Doesn't that argue for doing that yourself, no matter how terrifying or impossible writing may sometimes seem? It doesn't really matter what you say. It matters that you said it.

Words, words. They mean nothing, less than nothing. I know.