Quotes About Meaning

So if you want to convince me that there's something bigger going on here, some sort of grand plan or map or order in the universe, you're going to have to first explain why God makes bad moms." Ruth shrugs. "I don't know why." "Well, I do and it's because he doesn't exist.

When you've been raised in care, rap music isn't just about guns and sexism. They're talking about real things you can hang on to, problems of identity that you have sympathy with. It's not just about the music, with rap: when I was in care, it meant a whole lot more than that.

Ben bilmek istiyorum; gerçekten de yaÅŸamak dediÄŸimiz ÅŸey ÅŸu bir avuç yerde yaÅŸlan?ncaya kadar dola??p durmaktan m? ibaret; yoksa dünyada baÅŸka ÅŸekilde yaÅŸamak da mümkün mü?

We're not beginning...to...to...mean something? Mean something? You and I mean something?

Here's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness with others

All philosophies, if you ride them, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

Words are clothes that thoughts wear

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

As there can be no translation from one language into another which shall not scant the meaning somewhat, or enlarge upon it, so there is no language which can render thought without a jarring and a harshness somewhere.

All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.

The difference between God and the historians consists above all in the fact that God cannot alter the past.

pay attention to the stories people tell about themselves, which will help you figure out what they stand for and their sense of identity.

Words are but the signs of ideas.

Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.

To a poet nothing can be useless.

I am not yet so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

Lexicographer—A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.

He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning.