Quotes About Meaning

But if my love of truth is left as my only possession, then the greater the loss behind me, the greater the pride I may take in the price I have paid for that love.

Por su parte, él descubrió aquella noche que su reconquistado amor a la existencia no le era otorgado por haber sentido otra vez deseo de ella, sino que el deseo se suscitó luego de haber recuperado su mundo; el apego al valor y al sentido del mismo.

Deeply entrenched fantasies and persistent, most cherished illusions can at least partly be explained as 'bugs' or 'viruses' in, or 'mis-activations' of, our sophisticated and highly sensitive intellectual software, which is driven but also easily disrupted by, and addicted to, our restless and insatiable need for meaning, order, control, and reassurance.

do not , under any circumstances, belittle a work of fiction by trying to turn it into a carbon copy of real life; what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

Is it possible to write a reverent novel, said Nassrin, and to have it be good?...

We the Readers are like Dorothy or Alice: we step into this magical world in order to return and retell the story through our own eyes, thus giving new meaning to the story as well as to our lives.

what we search for in fiction is not so much reality but the epiphany of truth.

The more I discovered the lyrical quality of our lives, the more my own life became a web of fiction.

Because her name is not Lolita; her real name is Dolores, which as you know in Latin means `dolor.' So her real name is associated with sorrow and with anguish and with innocence. While Lolita becomes a sort of lightheaded, seductive and airy name, the Lolita of our novel is both of these at the same time. And in our culture here today, we only associate it with one aspect of that little girl, and the crassest interpretation of her.

That first day I asked my students what they thought fiction should accomplish, why one should bother to read fiction at all.

It should be clear by now that when I talk about books, I'm not talking about literature of resistance but literature as resistance.

curiosity is insubordination in its purest form"—the verdict against my father came to my mind.

Anything means something if you impose meaning on it, which in itself is a meaningless thing, the imposition.

There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster.

It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried.

As she spoke, her voice never wavered; it was the voice of someone who has forced a larger meaning out of tragedy. Or

the substance of patriotism mattered far more than the symbol.

The substance of patriotism matters more than the symbols.

You mean the Chaos Emeralds?

For in the end laws are just words on a page - words that are sometimes malleable, opaque, as dependent on context and trust as they are in a story or poem or promise to someone, words whose meanings are subject to erosion, sometimes collapsing in the blink of an eye.

O que quer dizer metalíngua senão tradução? Não se pode falar de uma língua senão em outra língua." Jacques Lacan, L'insu que sait de l'une-bévue s'aile à mourre

Maybe it wasn't about needing them. People hold on to all kinds of things, silly things, even broken things, because of the memories attached to them.

Love's the greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.

you can't go around telling people, 'I'm on a mission to discover the purpose of life.' Not if you're hoping to prolong the conversation.