Quotes About Meaning

There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness.

There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. It was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for men to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness. Then men seemed brave to me, and I was proud to be numbered among them. All the evil of the world seemed not evil at all, but inevitable and good and part of that endless struggle to keep the desert down.

There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. It was always there, a patient white animal, waiting for them to die, for civilizations to flicker and pass into the darkness. Then men seemed brave to me, and I was proud to be numbered among them. All the evil of the world seemed not evil at all, but inevitable and good and part of that endless struggle to keep the desert down.

Y de qué le sirve a un hombre ganar el mundo entero si pierde su alma?

Ama o ölüyor." "Kim ölmüyor ki?

Almighty God, I am sorry I am now an atheist, but have You read Nietzsche?

I didn't ask any questions. Everything I wanted to know was written in tortured phrases across the desolation of her face.

Horace, who had been trying to find out the meaning of Kurokuma for some time now, was pleased to hear the translation. "Black bear," he repeated. "It's undoubtedly because I'm so terrible in battle." "I'd guess so," Will put in. "I've seen you in battle and you're definitely terrible.

What do you mean, Araluen? Death?" Halt made a careless gesture. "The usual, I suppose: the sudden cessation of life. The end of it all. Departure for a happier place. Or oblivion, depending upon your personal beliefs.

Shokaku is a crane of some kind.' 'For lifting things?' Will asked. 'For flying. A crane is a large bird,' she corrected him... 'Seems like a logical thing for a crane to do,' Halt mused. 'I suppose you wouldn't expect it to mean 'a hiking crane' or 'a waddling crane.

It was a joke, Thorn. That was all. Just a joke." "A joke, my friend? No, I don't think so. A joke is when everyone can have a good laugh together. But when you do something that's spiteful and hurtful and causes misery to someone else, that's not a joke. That's cruelty.

And when there's no point to something, the best idea is not to do it.

don't suppose it does much for the cows' morale either.

Who exactly is Gorlog, dear?" she asked. "He's a northern god. I borrowed him from the Skandians. He's very useful if you want to blaspheme without offending people.

Will, ik houd van je. Alyss … Hij was zich bewust van een vreemd gevoel, een gevoel dat hij al een hele tijd niet had gehad. Toen wist hij ineens wat het betekende en hij glimlachte. Hij was gelukkig.

Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?' 'He is making a joke, no,' Will said. 'But he likes to think he is making a joke, yes.

Death hath so many doors to let out life.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

I loved exceedingly to converse on religious subjects, indeed I took no pleasure in any worldly concerns, and found all worldly possessions vain.

The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out of an inner journey. The inner journey is the interpolation of the meaning and signs of the outer pilgrimage, one can have one without the other. It's best to have both. —Thomas Merton, 1964

The environmental crisis is an outward manifestation of a crisis of mind and spirit. There could be no greater misconception of its meaning than to believe it to be concerned only with endangered wildlife, human-made ugliness, and pollution. These are part of it, but, more importantly, the crisis is concerned with the kind of creatures we are and what we must become in order to survive. —Lynton K. Caldwell

Does or does not the Word of God, in both the Old Testament Scriptures (Jer. 31) and the New Testament Scriptures (Heb. 8), clearly state in plain words that (1) there is indeed both a New and an Old Covenant, and further, that (2) the New Covenant has replaced and totally done away with the Old Covenant (Heb. 8:6-13)?

The nation of Israel was not the 'Body of Christ,' even though the Body of Christ is indeed the true 'Israel of God.

everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me...