Quotes About Meaning

Most people think they are searching for truth when they are really searching for love

Do nothing for effect. Do it for truth.

"True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

Anyone who is not working toward the truth is missing the whole point of living.

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

The most important thing about music that I've learned after all this time is that to me, it's a way of reaching the truth.

The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.

Madness, in its wild, untamable words, proclaims its own meaning; in its chimeras, it utters its secret truth.

The truth is that works of art test the spectator much more than the spectator tests them.

Remember, having faith means recognizing the value of what you are here to contribute to the world and allowing your actions to be grounded in that truth.

I'm sorry . . . what?" "For they are the Crows," he intoned solemnly, "and they are the harbingers of death.

Do you mind if I ask you a question, darlin'?" "Only if you stop calling me darlin'." "Now where I come from that's a term of endearment." "Really? Well, where I come from motherfucker is a term of endearment. Want me to start calling you that?

At least reindeer kisses do not cause me to take leave of my senses.

At first, I did not tell you any of this because...you were not supposed to mean anything to me. And later..." His voice became rough with emotion. "Later, I did not tell you because you mean so much to me.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

I have always lived in a world in which I'm just a spot in history. My life is not the important point. I'm just part of the continuum, and that continuum, to me, is a marvelous thing. The history of life, and the history of the planet, should go on and on and on and on. I cannot conceive of anything in the universe that has more meaning than that." [ Sheri S. Tepper: Speaking to the Universe , Locus Magazine, September 1998]

It's not what your reproductive organs do that counts, it's what your mind intends before that moment.

Une maison n'est qu'une coquille vide ; ce sont ses habitants qui lui donnent une âme.

The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to see the true meaning of things. As Pike proved daily, books held a kind of magic, an apparent as well as a hidden value.

Just an idea." He waved a thick hand. "I think Auden meant that whenever there's a gift there's a guilty secret, a thorn in the flesh. Both things are given at once, and the nature of one depends on the other.

Poetry stumbled upon never seems accidental.

The world is a parable-the habitation of symbols-the phantoms of spiritual things immortal shown in material shape.