Quotes About Meaning

el proceso de escribir propiamente dicho es el que permite al autor descubrir lo que quiere decir

La literatura me ha permitido siempre comprender la vida. Pero precisamente por eso me deja fuera de ella.

No le doy ningún valor a mi vida, sólo a las vidas ajenas, y pese a ello amo la vida, pero la amo porque espero que me dé alguna ocasión para echarla decorosamente por la borda.

Cuando leo algo que entiendo perfectamente, lo abandono desilusionado. No me gustan los relatos con historias comprensibles. Porque entender puede ser una condena. Y no entender, la puerta que se abre.

Lo más terrible de todo es saber en que consiste esta miserable vida y, pese a todo, y con la mayor alevosía, tener hijos. Se necesita mucho cinismo, valor y crueldad para una cosa de ese estilo.

Hey, look—your girlfriend is saying something." Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl?

Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.

De los bienes que la sabiduría ofrece para la felicidad de la vida entera, el mayor con mucho es la adquisición de la amistad

Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.

Why should I fear death? If I am, then death is not. If Death is, then I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not? Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear. Religious tyranny did domineer. At length the mighty one of Greece Began to assent the liberty of man.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

The noble man is chiefly concerned with wisdom and friendship; of these, the former is a mortal good, the latter and immortal one.

So long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist

Thus that which is the most awful of evils, death, is nothing to us, since when we exist there is no death, and when there is death we do not exist.

If death is we are not, if we are death is not.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which cannot exist when I do?

Why should I fear death If I am, Death is not If death is, I am not Why should I fear that which could not exist when I do?

For if death is we are not,if we are death is not

When we exist, death is not present, and when death is present, we do not exist

N.F.F.N.S.N.C. Non Fui; Fui; Non Sum; Non Curo. "I was not, I was, I am not, I care not." It's a Latin saying found on Roman grave markers. It means I wasn't bothered about not existing before I existed and I'm not bothered about not existing now that I don't exist.

La morte, il più terribile dei mali, non è niente. Quando ci siamo noi la morte non c'è, e quando c'è lei noi non siamo più.

It is not simply in wonder but in love that philosophy begins.

What has been said is often less important than what has not been said.

Back in civilization I begin the questioning," wrote Randy. "What to do with life? What kind of life? In wilderness this ceases; the questions aren't answered, they dissolve.