Quotes About Meaning

I wanted to matter. For my life to matter. So many people die and no one knows they ever existed. They're ripples in a stream, disappearing when the wind blows.

Time means nothing to me.

As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.

My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously.

Why would anyone want to turn back time? There is no meaning in regret, no point in thinking about thing I could have done. Because there is no guarantee that any decision is the right one.

How long a time lies in one little word?

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

There was a time when meanings were focused and reality could be fixed; when that sort of belief disappeared, things became uncertain and open to interpretation.

Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds. In melodies. In feelings.

We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential.

What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable.

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.

What is the best use of my time on this planet?

There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.

Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can't appreciate what we have

Time isn't made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

This body is not a home, but an inn; and that only for a short time. Seneca Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.

Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

It's not necessarily how many minutes you're on screen, it's the material you have. It's more important what it is you have to do than the amount of time you're there.