Quotes About Meaning

Coincidence makes sense only with you.

Also, as I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.

As I lay there thinking of my vision, I could see it all again and feel the meaning with a part of me like a strange power glowing in my body; but when the part of me that talks would try to make words for the meaning, it would be like fog and get away from me.

Death is the great argument for immortality. We cannot believe that the living, loving soul has ceased to be. We cannot believe that all those treasures of mind and heart are squandered in empty air. We will not believe it. When once we understand the meaning of the spiritual, we see the absolute certainty of eternal life; we need no arguments for the persistence of being.

All life is an argument for death.

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The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex. It means whatever you want it to mean.

I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu . Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning and meanings differently arranged have a different effect.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Man's true nature being lost, everything becomes his nature as, his true good being lost, everything becomes his good.

What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, everything in relation to nothing, a mean between nothing and everything.

In other words Yates had remembered the lesson of his first great master, Fitzgerald—namely, that people rarely say what they mean, and good dialogue is a matter of catching one's characters "in the very act of giving themselves away.

When you put a thing on paper, sometimes you discover you already know the answer. Or maybe that there is no answer, which is the same thing.

Si no pasa la prueba del «¿Dice de qué va?», no has dado con tu título. Ni tienes aún el doble gancho que constituye junto a una gran premisa.

There is a difference between being mad and being surrounded by retards.

Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

Growth was a natural by-product of the company's success in pursuing its central purpose and reason for being, whatever that may have been.

He remembered a story he'd once heard about a girl throwing starfish into the ocean. "An old man comes along and says to her, 'Don't bother. There's millions of them out here. You can't save them. What you're doing won't make a difference.' She looks at the starfish in her hand and says, 'It makes a difference to this one.' And she throws it into the ocean. Lily was one of my starfish.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

La vie deviendra un jeu, ou plutôt une variété de jeux, et non plus un jeu sans enjeu.

Nous tuons des gens par millions dans le but de vendre des Big Mac et des Cadillac aux survivants. [...] Morts pour rien - ou, pour mieux dire, morts au nom du travail. Or, le culte du travail ne mérite vraiment pas qu'on meure pour lui.

The most valuable gift you have to offer is yourself.