Quotes About Meaning

The ontology of life is accomplished by way of a privative Interpretation; it determines what must be the case if there can be anything like mere-aliveness [Nur-noch-leben].

Everything has always already been said. And yet this same possesses, as its inner truth, the inexhaustable wealth of what is on every day as if that day were its first.

Man is the shepherd of Being.

If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

if the man did not find something to die for,he will not fit to life...

Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.

If today's church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century.

Whatever I was, I owed to my family and to all those who struggled with me. But my biggest debt I owed to my wife. She was the one who gave my life meaning. All I could pledge to her, and to all those millions, was that I would do all I could to justify the faith that she, and they, had in me. I would try more than ever to make my life one of which she, and they, could be proud. I would do in private that which I knew my public responsibility demanded.

What matters is not how long you live…but how you live.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

It isn't about being or not being dead. It's about what you leave behind.

Synchronicity. Life isn't a series of random events at all, but rather an expression of a deeper order.

Synchronicity (life) isn't a series of random events at all, but an expression of a deeper order.

When she died, what would matter except that she loved and was loved in return?

love was never a sin. Not loving, now that was the very worst kind of sin

And of course the word love has many shades of meaning, as do many, many of the words in our living, breathing language

The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.

He knew he was alive when he was with her, whatever the devil that meant. Whatever the devil it did mean, it made all the difference. And he was not even sure what that meant.

Idleness was so often despised. And yet it was on idleness, she knew, that one touched meaning and peace.

Even at its darkest moment, life was a precious gift.

Life is a precious possession...It is what one makes of it. - Charity Duncan

Living is not merely a matter of staying alive, is it? It is what you do with your life and the fact of your survival that counts.

Why say something, he asked her, if your words mean nothing?