Quotes About Meaning

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

Sometimes, when tragedy strikes, people give up hope that they can expect anything more from life, when the real quest is finding out what life expects from them.

My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family was working-class, and we were struggling.

...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony.

Can't you . . . I don't know. Find a hobby or something?" "Being charming is my hobby," said Adrian obstinately. "I'm the life of the party— even without drinking. I wasn't meant to be alone.

The greatest things in life are not things.

The purpose of your life fits into a much larger, cosmic purpose that God has designed for eternity.

Everybody's got a worldview. Everybody's betting their life on something. ... You just better know why you're betting what you're betting on.

The eternal salvation of a single soul is more important than anything else you will ever achieve in life.

I didn't show up here to give your life purpose now that your life's over. That's up to you to figure out.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

When you are not sure on what to do, choose a life that is most meaningful to you and make it a habit.

It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is.

My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.

Why is Form beautiful? Because, I think, it helps us confront our worst fear: the suspicion that life may be chaos and that therefore our suffering is without meaning.

Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.

After a lifetime of deep thought, I've decided that life is a distraction, but probably not from anything important.

There are three things, after all, that a poem must reach: the eye, the ear, and what we may call the heart or the mind. It is the most important of all to reach the heart of the reader.

Our very life depends on everything's Recurring till we answer from within.

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

... what counts in life usually cannot be counted.

To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

The most ordinary words have amazing life in them.