Quotes About Meaning

Let us create extraordinary words, on condition that they be put to the most ordinary use and that the entity they designate be made to exist in the same way as the most common object.

What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.

Placing oneself in a position where one is thus traversed, broken, fucked by the socius, looking for the right place where, according to the aims and interests assigned to us, one feels something moving that has neither an interest nor a purpose.

The story of the meaning of existence is a long one. Its origins are Greek, pre-Christian. As we have seen suffering was used as a way of proving the injustice of existence, but at the same time as a way of finding a higher and divine justification for it. (It is blameworthy because it suffers, but because it suffers it is atoned for and redeemed.)

Por doquier la máscara, el disfraz, lo vestido, la verdad de lo desnudo. El verdadero sujeto de la repetición es la máscara. Porque la repetición difiere por naturaleza de la representación, lo repetido no puede ser representado, sino que debe ser siempre significado, enmascarado por lo que significa, enmascarando, a su vez, lo que significa.

Mucho más importante que el pensamiento es lo que da que pensar; mucho más importante que el filósofo, el poeta.

The death of God has as many meanings as there are forces capable of seizing Christ and making him die; but we are still waiting for the forces or the power which will carry this death to its highest point and make it into something more than an apparent and abstract death.

Il buon senso è che in ogni cosa vi è un senso determinabile; il paradosso è due sensi nello stesso tempo

Should I remove my soul before I come inside?

inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship. So

I would never steer a fellow sufferer from the relief of a blackout.

An inside joke is like a symbol of friendship without having to do the work required of an actual friendship.

I never worked holidays, because holiday hand jobs are sad for everyone.

So you can see why the whole hand-job thing felt like a natural career progression.

How are you, it wasn't a courtesy, it was an existential question.

Like the McMansion I rented, the bar featured symbolically in my childhood memories – a place where only grown-ups go, and do whatever grown-ups do. Maybe that's why I was so insistent on buying it after being stripped of my livelihood. It's a reminder that I am, after all, an adult, a grown man, a useful human being, even though I lost the career that made me all these things.

You two worshipful, adoring assholes created that thing down the hall and set her loose on the world.

Ah, well, being conflicted means you can live a shallow life without copping to being a shallow person.

Your grandparents always told me, Make a useful life. I don't feel I've really done that, but I can make a useful death... - My life has been determined so much by accidents, it seems nice that now an accident on purpose will make things right again. A happy accident.

The little brown house was my father's house, which was actually blue, but Amy was making another inside joke. I'd always liked our inside jokes the best – they made me feel more connected to Amy than any amount of confessional truth-telling or passionate lovemaking or talk-till-sunrising.

Whenever I hear that phrase

People want passion. People want a sense of purpose.

gosto de regras que fazem sentido, não de regras sem lógica.

It was an itinerary for an alternate life. If things had gone according to my wife's vision, yesterday she would have hovered near me as I read this poem, watching me expectantly, the hope emanating from her like a fever: *Please get this. Please get me.*