Quotes About Meaning

I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go.

This life, this everyday existence, is the one gift we're given. To throw it away, to want to be dead, to me that's the sin.

By nature, human beings search for ways to make sense and meaning out of their lives and their world. One way that we make meaning is through the telling of our stories. Stories connect us, teach us, and warn us never to forget.

To David, love meant declaration. Wasn't that the whole point? To Sarah, love meant a shared secret. Wasn't that the whole point?

how does my worthless life get lived without me?

It might be impossible to make sense of life: life was not worth living until the attempt to do so had been made." CHARLES E. RAVEN

In fact the great truth of life is that the things most people think are important aren't really important at all.

When you tell a story, you shape the truth.

For almost all these women, their faith is the means by which they make sense of the world and of themselves; it is who they are and what they do, not something they have.

A little word can have a big impact. The difference between all and some. - Liz Sutton

Yet there was something about Phoebe Kitzke. An innocence, maybe. No, that wasn't right. It was how she seemed trusting. More fool her. Or maybe him.

He'd explained that he'd loved her mother so much that just being in the same room with her, not doing anything special, was better than the most exciting party with anyone else. At the time she hadn't understood his point, but suddenly it all made sense.

The person who completes your life is not so much the person who shares all the years of your existence, but rather the person who made your life worth living, no matter how long or short a time you were given to spend with them.

Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell.

Love was both the softest edge and the sharpest edge of what made life real.

Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

When education is overwhelmed by hypermedia, travel facile or ruinous, and work a blurred mixture of more dependence and less meaning, it's harder than ever to use those experiences to grow. But growing up, I have argued, has been dogged by dilemma ever since it was a real option. As Enlightenment philosophers knew, it's a process that is as socially determined as it is profoundly individual.

Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.

Nothing is more punitive than to give a disease a meaning - that meaning being invariably a moralistic one.

In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life.

All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

We live in a time in which tragedy is not an art form but a form of history.