Quotes About Meaning

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

It took me a very long time to realize that inherently the materials have this beautiful quality without me having to impose meaning onto them.

The human need for language is not simply for the transmission of meaning, it is at the same time listening to and affirming a person's existence.

After spending some time with my soul mate I have come to the conclusion that I may have something wrong with my soul

Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty, of sincerity.

I've seen time and time again the way that the process of trying to say something dignifies and improves a person.

History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.

Collect treasures that have meaning only to you. Put them in a special place, and explain them to no one, except when you're giving interviews to Time magazine.

And everywhere, infinite options, infinite possibilities. An infinity, and at the same time, zero. We try to scoop it all up in our hands, and what we get is a handful of zero. That's the city

What's fascinated me from the time I was a little kid was the way we construct our lives through stories.

There's something about being under-rested and knowing that the situation is going to remain that way for quite some time that makes things more meaningful.

It's about time trees were good for something, instead of just standing there like jerks!

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they are Quacks.

Maybe all theatre is going to be irrelevant for all time.

Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.

For the word is dialectical in itself and at the same time is integrated into the whole of existence. By this I mean that the word is intended to be lived.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

Why spend the afternoon making a meal that will be gone in an hour," she'd ask us, "when in the same amount of time, I can do a painting that will last forever?

A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time.

You see so many earnest characters in movies all the time, everyone has a purpose.

I make movies about people in spiritual crisis because it's a way for me to spend the time, the energy, the focus and the obsession to come to terms with my own spiritual crisis.

People weep at music all the time, because music gives form to some abstract level of integration.