Quotes About Meaning

For all I had heard about ancestors, I had no wish to be one. The idea of having children so they could have children so they could have children frightened me. It seemed so pointless, like that blissful measure of time in Heaven that so comforted the devout: 'If a bird transferred every grain of sand on every beach, grain by grain, and dropped them in the ocean, that is the beginning of eternity.

Por qué algunos vendremos a este mundo sólo a sufrir?

La esperanza no es lo mismo que el optimismo. No es la convicción de que algo saldrá bien, sino la certeza de que algo tiene sentido independientemente de cómo resulte. Václav Havel, político y escritor checo

Noch immer unentschieden. Franz«. Vier Worte, eine Autobiographie.

When ye hear somebody using words agin' somebody, don't go by his words, fer they won't make no damn sense. Go by his tone, and ye'll know if he's mean and lying." Granpa was pretty much down on having

What I'm talking about here, by the way, is salvation. The latin root, salve, means 'health.' The Teutonic cognates 'health' and 'holy' share the same root. Being agnostic about the afterlife, I look for salvation here - not to be saved from life, but to be saved by life, in life, for life.

Your doctrine is only the half of my program; you have stopped at liberty, I go on to fraternity." I answered him: "The second part of your program will destroy the first." And in fact it is impossible for me to separate the word fraternity from the word voluntary.

Mr. de Lamartine once wrote to me thusly: "Your doctrine is only the half of my program. You have stopped at liberty; I go on to fraternity." I answered him: "The second half of your program will destroy the first.

?i?u khó kh?n nh?t không ph?i là bi?t ???c t?i sao ta l?i s?ng, mà là thoát ???c kh?i câu h?i này.

Nos vies n'ont pas d'importance, elles coulent au fond du temps, pourtant nous avons existé et rien ne l'empêchera: bien que liquides, nos joies ne s'évaporent jamais.

Amar: no vivimos para nada más

T? k? nabagie mirst,bag?tajiem ir iemesls dz?vot.

Crezusem c? a face copii e cel mai bun mijloc de a învinge moartea. Nu e câtu?i de pu?in adev?rat. Po?i s? mori împreun? cu ei, ?i asta e ca ?i cum nici unul dintre voi nu ar fi existat vreodat?.

toute vie, même nulle, est supérieure au néant, même héroïque.

Volim te je najmanje smešna re?enica na svetu.

Si vous faîtes attention aux signes, quand donc ferez vous attention à ce qu'ils signifient? If you pay attention to the signs, but when will you pay attention to what they signify?

I never understood the meaning of a film. I am very concrete. I only understand what is on the screen. In my whole life, I have never understood a single symbol.

N'oubliez pas, on vit juste pour quelques rencontres.

I'm old enough to ask myself that question, but not so old that I don't care what the answer is.

Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last.

And since he was seeing more and more people who were unhappy for no apparent reason, he was becoming more and more tired, and even a little unhappy himself. He began to wonder if he was in the right profession, whether he was happy with life, whether he wasn't missing out on something. And then he felt very afraid because he wondered whether these unhappy people were contagious.

Il y a une forme de légèreté et de grâce dans le simple fait d'exister, au-delà des occupations, au-delà des sentiments forts, au-delà des engagements, et c'est de cela que j'ai voulu rendre compte. De ce petit plus qui nous est donné à tous : le sel de la vie.

Realism provides only amoral observation, while Absurdism rejects even the possibility of debate.

That," he whispered, "is unthinkable." In Mosca's experience, such statements generally meant that a thing was perfectly thinkable, but that the speaker did not want to think it.