Quotes About Meaning

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

The secret of ugliness consists of not irregularity, but in being uninteresting

In the uttermost meaning of the words, thought is devout, and devotion is thought. Deep calls unto deep.

I embrace the common, I explore and sit at the feet of the familiar, the low. Give me insight into to-day, and you may have the antique and future worlds. What would we really know the meaning of? The meal in the firkin; the milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the news of the boat.

In good writing, words become one with things.

I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.

One thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book;… in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear.

Things added to things, as statistics, civil history, are inventories. Things used as language are inexhaustibly attractive.

The word liberty in the mouth of Mr. Webster sounds like the word love in the mouth of a courtesan.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

To fill the hour-that is happiness.

It is not the length of life, but the depth.

The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works." Again, "I can of my own self do nothing." And he then speaks of his purpose, his aim: "I am come that ye might have life, and that ye might have it more abundantly." A little later he adds: "The works that I do ye shall do also." Now again, these things mean something of a very definite nature, or they mean nothing at all.

Always remember the hankering for the 'other' is never for them, but to use them as a means of your EGO, you turn them into a commodity and thats why every relationship gets ruined. Mind YOU!

Never give a conscious meaning to your unconscious acts!"

Your silence conveyed more than what I spoke!

The meaning of a thing is the impact it has on the world around it, she thought. The meaning of a life is the impact that life has on the world.

Smile while you can,' Hettie Close had scrawled in ink almost as faded as the print above it. 'Smile like the skull you'll be, you fool, before you're worse than bones.

language is no deus ex machina to account for philosophy.

sober as a corpse, I used to tell him.

Language was just that thing that happened when you opened your mouth at the table, squeezed a few noises out of your vocal chords, and induced Socrates thereby to pass the salt.

Sound is the hard currency; meaning is the network of cultural and formal conventions that turns it into a stick of gum at the candy store.