Quotes About Meaning

persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter - 'tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." Friedrich Nietzsche * * *

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born an the day you find out why.

The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.- Mark Twain (Letter to George Bainton, 10/15/1888)

extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death. To be loyal to rags, to shout for rags, to worship rags, to die for rags—that is a loyalty of unreason, it is pure animal; it belongs to monarchy, was

The Character of Man Concerning Man—he is too large a subject to be treated as a whole; so I will merely discuss a detail or two of him at this time. I desire to contemplate him from this point of view—this premiss: that he was not made for any useful purpose, for the reason that he hasn't served any; that he was most likely not even made intentionally; and that his working himself up out of the oyster bed to his present position was probably

The street called Straight is straighter than a corkscrew, but not as straight as a rainbow. St. Luke is careful not to commit himself; he does not say it is the street which is straight, but the "street which is called Straight." It is a fine piece of irony; it is the only facetious remark in the Bible, I believe.

Los dos días más importantes de tu vida son el día en que naces y el día en que descubres para qué

They told me the first mourner to come was the dog. He came uninvited, and stood up on his hind legs and rested his fore paws upon the trestle, and took a last long look at the face that was so dear to him, then went his way as silently as he had come. HE KNOWS.

Cele mai importante dou? zile din viaÈ›a ta sunt ziua în care te-ai n?scut È™i cea în care afli de ce.

For when a man's soul is starving, what does he care for meat and roof so he can but get that nobler hunger fed?

Having rationally decided to become less rational, we hoped to find new, meaningful, exciting, useful truths. Folk

Why is there so much meaning when a mind breaks? Why isn't it all just static and nonsense?

Even a wasted life stands as an important example and therefore can never be useless.

But he said to his wife, sitting next to him on the couch in the TV room, that rarely had he seen a funeral at which it seemed like almost nobody in attendance had any idea why they were there. His wife, who had heard things like this from him before, reminded him of a ceremony he had presided over only a few months ago about which he had had the same reaction. 'Oh right,' the minister said. 'Yes. That one was much worse.' He leaned down to the coffee table and picked up the remote.

Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.

Here then - the after math of meaning. A lifetime finished between the space of two frames.

for as leaves are to limbs, so are your words to your soul

words need worlds in order to be worlds. worlds though don't need words in order to be worlds.

Symbols shmimbols. Sure they're important but... Well look at Ahab's whale. Now there's a great symbol. Some say it stands for god, meaning, and purpose. Others say it stands for purposelessness and the void. But what we sometimes forget is that Ahab's whale was also just a whale.

Of course curiosity killed the cat, and even if satisfaction supposedly brought it back, there's still that little problem with the man on the radio telling me more and more about some useless information.

You could not believe what one sigh articulates. What one laugh creates.

She said memories mean all, but they are all dead.