Quotes About Meaning

Once, Picasso was asked what his paintings meant. He said, Do you ever know what the birds are singing? You don't. But you listen to them anyway. So, sometimes with art, it is important just to look.

Theories about world literature, of which fairy tale is a fundamental part, emphasize the porousness of borders, geographical and inguistic: no frontiercan keep a good story from roaming. It will travel, and travel far, and travel back again in a different guise, a changed mood, and, above all, a new meaning.

Note that a rotation by 360 degrees is equivalent to doing nothing at all, or rotating by zero degrees. This is known as the identity transformation. Why bother to define such a transformation at all? As we shall see later in the book, the identity transformation plays a similar role to that of the number zero in the arithmetic operation of addition or the number one in multiplication-when you add zero to a number or multiply a number by one, the number remains unchanged.

Yet, he thought, if I can die saying, Life is so beautiful, then nothing else is important. If i can believe in myself that much, nothing else matters.

if I can die saying, "Life is so beautiful," then nothing else is important.

Yet he thought, if I die saying Life is beautiful, then nothing else is important.

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

Their curses were not aimed at any definite target: they swore at such abstractions as God, the Officers, the Mothers of Others, with more music than meaning.

La frivolidad consiste en tener una tabla de valores invertida o desequilibrada en la que la forma importa más que el contenido, la apariencia más que la esencia y en la que el gesto y el desplante —la representación— hacen las veces de sentimientos e ideas.

Sebab budaya tidaklah sinonim dengan sains, sastra, atau bidang spesialisasi lainnya, namun sebuah cara memandang hal ihwal, sebuah pendekatan yang mampu menangkap apapun yang berkaitan dengan manusia.

Kalau sesuatu bermakna begitu besar buatmu, kau menyelubunginya dengan misteri, tercetus padaku untuk berkata.

como la idea de que reemplazar el vivir por el representar, hacer de la vida una espectadora de sí misma, implica un empobrecimiento de lo humano (proposición n.º 30).

Un hombre debe vivir mientras sienta que la vida vale la pena.

No era la vida algo absurdo, una representación dramática que de súbito se volvía farsa?

Ese objeto, anodino en la realidad real, transfigurado prodigiosamente por el lenguaje, es la demostración de algo que descubrió Flaubert a los veinticuatro años y que se apresuró a participar a su amigo Le Poittevin: «Pour qu'une chose soit intéressante, il suffit de la regarder longtemps».[53]

No, life had ceased to be logical, and therefore nothing was absurd. It was life: one had to accept it as it was or kill oneself.

Un libro se convierte en parte de la vida de una persona por una suma de razones que tienen que ver simultáneamente con el libro y con la persona.

Reading ancient myths and fairy tales can be very helpful because these stories came spontaneously from people who had not studied psychology. The stories came straight out of their unconscious and, therefore, show us how the unconscious works unimpeded by conscious intervention. The images are clear and stark. For those of us who are interested in why we do what we do when we want to do the opposite, the stories are gold mines of information.

The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all.

We aren't on Earth to be happy, but to experience incredible things.

Carnations) The only flower that, when given to someone, is marginally superior to dead ones.

I didn't want to waste another minute on it. My life was meant to begin. The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all.

The bad things that happen to you don't have to mean anything at all. -Nora Halliday