Quotes About Meaning

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

La muerte sirve para hacernos pensar, pero no sobre la muerte sino sobre la vida.

Y sabes por qué no resulta sencillo decir cuándo un ser humano es "bueno" y cuándo no lo es? Porque no sabemos para qué sirven los seres humanos.

I have often received messages from diverse readers that, with some variations, pose similar questions. For example: 'What did you want to symbolize with: a) the man that hits another man on his head with an umbrella? b) the mosquito that dominates the man? c) the fifty chastising lambs?' In all cases my answers, in these words or words like these, are; When I write a story I try to make it the best possible story in a literary sense: I just want to write a story.

About how much is autobiographical in my fiction, I could say nothing and everything.

Possibly people seek nonexistent meanings due to the tendency of "intellectuals" wanting to show themselves as "intelligent.

I've always thought it absurd for words to be added to music because I think music is a language, perhaps not a more precise one, but a much more effective language than language, than words.

La filosofía sirve para lo que sirve Dios. Para un carajo.

Y donde está prohibido todo nada está. Todo es nada y nada es todo y todo pasa, señor, todo cambia, la ciudad, el país, el idioma.

Qué importa, qué más da, recuerdos son recuerdos: llamitas moribundas que ya apagará el olvido. En la mísera trama de la vida tejida de deleznables instantes, ¿qué es un instante entre millones además?

ferris I do have a test today. that wasn't bull. it's on european socialism. I mean, really, what's the point I'm not european. I don't plan on being european. so who gives a crap if they're socialists they could be fasict anarcists. it still doesn't change the fact that I don't own a car.

It brings us to a confrontation with that important perception of Finnegans Wake, that its apparent sense of affirmation, plurality, and multiplicity shades into or hides a stronger idea of nullity. From the infinitely meaningful, universally affirming, it is a short step to the opposite, to indifference, to voids of meaning and value.

It is well known that lust brings madness and desperation and ruin. But upon my oath, I never meant any harm. All I wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something. That is not madness, is it?

All I ever wanted was to be happy, to love and to be loved in return, and for my life to count for something. That is not madness, is it?

consider the meaning of these images. Every time you're working with them, ask yourself: what do they mean? And, even more important, what do they mean to me? The more specific and personal something is, the more its universality emerges.

It is this process of symbolization which, in certain hasheesh states, gives every tree and house, every pebble and leaf, every footprint, feature, and gesture, a significance beyond mere matter or form, which possesses an inconceivable force of tortures or of happiness.

There are a thousand ways in which his neighbours can evaporate the essence which is all in all to him, while they at the same time give to his scenery ponderable value which to them is worth far more

Is it life?" he answered, "I would rather be without it," he said, "for there is queer small utility in it. You cannot eat it or drink it or smoke it in your pipe, it does not keep the rain out and it is a poor armful in the dark if you strip it and take it to bed with you after a night of porter when you are shivering with the red passion. It is a great mistake and a thing better done without, like bed-jars and foreign bacon.

Answers do not matter so much as questions, said the Good Fairy. A good question is very hard to answer. The better the question the harder the answer. There is no answer at all to a very good question.

The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it…. If you manage to use it successfully for social, religious, or other purposes, it is because you make it art first.

Once when I was eight years old my grandmother asked me, what will you do when you grow up? And I answered, I want to die. I want to die when I grow up. I want to die soon. And I think my sister really liked that answer.

But one does have to give words some credit. One has to at least pretend that they more or less resemble their meaning. Their shady meaning.

Joshua M. Greene, author Justice at Dachau

My main point is to be funny if I can slip a message in there, fine.