Quotes About Meaning

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

In war, {freedom's} meaning is bound to the collective, making peace and freedom the same . . . The collective is a mob that suffers in silence, and waits.

Uli?ni protesti iz 1973. godine: za lakat mu se pridržava djevojka i on je nagnut unazad, prema njoj, ramenom je štiti, tako da je cijelo njegovo tijelo zauzelo položaj u odnosu na njeno prisustvo, a ne u odnosu na policiju ispred njih... i, eto, zna?i, to je ta Povijest? Sjena koju baca muško rame

Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often full the gap.

Where there is a lack of other connections, of meaningful moments, in our lives, music can often fill the gap.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

I don't mind citing a bad author if the line is good.

Last time I asked: 'What does mathematics mean to you?', and some people answered: "The manipulation of numbers, the manipulation of structures.' And if I had asked what music means to you, would you have answered: 'The manipulation of notes?

What can I do? I have no talents. I refuse to cripple myself for ninety roubles... Well, all right, so I'll eat two thousand hamburgers in my lifetime. Wear out twenty-five dark-grey suits. Leaf through seven hundred issues of the local newspaper. And die without scratching the earth's surface. Is that it? ... I'd rather live only a minute, but live it right! (Fred Kolesnikov)

I can't see the line between deliberate intention and coincidence.

To kill the enemy is valorous. To condemn him to torment is infamous. To condemn him to eternal torment is eternal infamy.

Je l' ti znaš šta je to? Biti osu?en na ljubav? "Ali zar to nije uvijek?" Svetlana ?ak zadrhta od negodovanja. "Kada se dvoje vole, kada se pronalaze me?u tisu?ama, milijunima... To je uvijek sudbina!

He enjoyed life for its own sake, not for material possessions. Life was the exact opposite of money, which in itself meant nothing.

qué momento empezó a tener sentido haber nacido, para que uno sienta el deseo de hacer nacer?).

Cada época lee a sus clásicos de distinta manera. El lector encuentra en ellos los contenidos que le permiten aclarar su presente, resolver sus dilemas, vislumbrar con mayor claridad sus objetivos. Una gran obra trascenderá siempre las intenciones de su autor y las limitaciones de su tiempo

Un filósofo de la vida debe echar siempre mano del lapicero porque no tiene derecho a que sus pensamientos se desperdicien. De lo contrario se convierte en un pensador inofensivo, como un león que ha perdido sus colmillos, y no hay cosa peor que un león obligado a régimen vegetariano.

Words are the residue that I was there, that I loved my wife, that I kissed my children goodnight, that I sacrificed my life for them. Words are a curse. Life is a curse. Words escape life. Life escapes words. What in God's name am I? How does someone name a God? What is it to name yourself?

I've had people come up to me with the strangest interpretations of what my lyrics might mean, and I'm like, "You go! I never thought of that, but that works,"...I think that true art is a universal reflection, and true artists are just messengers of that reflection or, at best, skilled presentors.

Sex is not about taking your clothes off; it's about holding another person's soul in your hands.

Art is what we call...the thing an artist does. It's not the medium or the oil or the price or whether it hangs on a wall or you eat it. What matters, what makes it art, is that the person who made it overcame the resistance, ignored the voice of doubt and made something worth making. Something risky. Something human. Art is not in the ...eye of the beholder. It's in the soul of the artist.

Without death, life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

but our Lord was not silent. Even if he had been silent, my life until this day would have spoken of Him.

At the core of her senseless actions, she vaguely perceived that she yearned for something. A something that would provide her with a sure sense of fulfillment. But she could not fathom what that something might be.

Behind every purpose, there's a reason, behind every reason, there's a story, behind every story, there's a dance... ready to set in motion