Quotes About Meaning

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

Words have weight.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

For every mother who ever cursed God for her child dead in the road, for every father who ever cursed the man who sent him away from the factory with no job, for every child who was ever born to pain and asked why, this is the answer. Our lives are like these things I build. Sometimes they fall down for a reason, sometimes they fall down for no reason at all.

She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.

The medical definition of miracle is misdiagnosis.

Maybe, in the end it's the voice that tells the stories more than the stories themselves that matters.

Explanations are such cheap poetry.

God doesn't bribe, child. He just makes a sign and lets people take it as they will.

Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words - the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers that won't do that. But when you find a book that has both good story and good words, treasure that book.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

Time slowed and reality bent; on and on the eggman went.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

Words had a way of creating their own imperatives.

I understood something else, too - that one kiss didn't change a thing. Anyone can give a kiss, after all; a kiss was how Judas Iscariot showed the Romans which one was Jesus.

You know, Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, I've heard the saying 'That sucks' for years without really being sure of what it meant. Now I think I know.

He says there's a reason wife and life sound almost the same.

Reverend was right about one thing: people always want a reason for the bad things in life. Sometimes there ain't one.

If fiction and politics ever really do become interchangeable, I'm going to kill myself, because I won't know what else to do. You see, politics always change. Stories never do.

I'm a man of the world, and all that means is I understand what powers the world. The fuel mix is one part high-octane to nine parts pure bullshit.

That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy.