Quotes About Meaning

Reality, in a sense, was not an objective place where you were thrust. You had to maintain your hold on it by vigilantly keeping watch over whatever slight and intangible thing gave your life its meaning. Call it a soul, or presence. Whatever it was, a prisoner or guest and you had to trick it or petition it into lingering.

It wasn't a hoax,' Burdmore said quickly. 'It was theater. Real theater. Like Brecht.' ¶ 'What does Brecht have to do with it? I think you should leave Brecht out of this--

It wasn't a hoax,' Burdmoore said quickly. 'It was theater. Real theater. Like Brecht.' ¶ 'What does Brecht have to do with it? I think you should leave Brecht out of this--

The thing is you keep existing whether you have a plan to do so or not, until you don't exist, and then your plans are meaningless.

Most of the things that give life its depth, meaning, and value are impervious to science.

Inner peace is more a question of cultivating perspective, meaning, and wisdom even as life touches you with its pain.

The best stories have many meanings; their meaning changes as our capacity to understand and appreciate meaning grows.

I write not for the sake of glory. Not for the sake of fame. Not of the sake of success. But for the sake of my soul.

Does the Sower feed the tale Or the tale feed the Sower?

I'm not living, I'm just killing time

A sense of mission lost in ink's jagged outcrops. I was trying to tell myself what I must have known before in a form I wouldn't recognize at first.

So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade

Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.

The jacaranda, for instance, is beautiful but not serious.

é una strana accozzaglia di cose, vero? Ciò che resta di una vita.

she fully understood the meaning of joy. Sparkle might have his magic snowball that could save Christmas, but the true magic—the only one that really mattered—was love.

I regret,' said he, 'that I have no cup; but, as you see, I can practise phlebotomy with a bottle.

It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, life's big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics.

We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way.

The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.

Nothing restores the sense of being alive less ambiguously than the birth of the unexpected, the finding of a person who one did not know one loved so much.

The most precious things in speech are pauses.

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.