Quotes About Meaning

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Ils en conclurent que la syntaxe est une fantaisie et la grammaire une illusion.

Antes de casarse, Emma se había creído enamorada; pero como la felicidad que hubiera debido resultar de aquel amor no había llegado, pensó que necesariamente debía de haberse equivocado. Y trataba de averiguar qué significaban exactamente en la vida las palabras 'dicha', 'pasión' y 'embriaguez', que tan hermosas le habían parecido en los libros

The man is nothing, the work--all.

Before marriage she thought herself in love; but the happiness that should have followed this love not having come, she must, she thought, have been mistaken. And Emma tried to find out what one meant exactly in life by the words felicity, passion, rapture, that had seemed to her so beautiful in books.

Is it splendid, or stupid, to take life seriously?

Como si la plenitud del alma no se desborda algunas veces en las metáforas más vacías

Before marriage she thought hserself in love; but the happiness that should have followed this love not having come, she must, she thought, have been mistaken. And Emma tried to find out what one meant exactly in life by the words felicity, passion, rapture, that had seemed to her so beautiful in books.

L'art d'écrire est l'art de découvrir ce en quoi vous croyez.

Emma tried to find out what one meant exactly in life by the words felicity, passion, rapture, that had seemed to her so beautiful in books.

It's Very difficult to put your Finger on exactly what 'nice' means and that's why a biscuit has been specially designed to help. The Nice biscuit has a layer of sugar on the top to make it seem sweet, but essentially it's very dull. The same can be said of nice people.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

It was one of those feminine faces whose every line has its own particular charm, and seems to possess a meaning, whose every movement seems to reveal or to conceal something.

Pl?cerea va trebui jerfit? folosului.

Vivre enfin, c'est mourir!

Mert a szerelem szavai mindig egyformák, csak az adja meg az ízüket, hogy milyen ajakról hangzanak el.

Le but n'est rien, le développement est tout. Le spectacle ne veut en venir à rien d'autre qu'à lui-même.

we are not here on earth to change our destiny but to fulfill it.

A hard truth: that courage can be without meaning or impact, need not be rewarded, or even known. The world has not been made in that way. Perhaps, however, within the self there might come a resonance, the awareness of having done something difficult, of having done . . . something .

We salvage what we can, what truly matters to us, even at the gates of despair.

If you make meaning, you'll probably also make money.

Meaning is not creating a cool place to work with free food, Ping-Pong, volleyball, and dogs. Meaning is making the world a better place.

No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.

If you make a man a symbol of things that are bigger than any one person can possibly be, you risk stripping that man of his sense of who he really is.