Quotes About Meaning

We had six healthy months and then six not-so-healthy months. I don't call them 'good' or 'bad' months. They're all good if you're doing the right thing. Do you know what I mean?" "Yeah," Augie says. "I know what you mean." "I made sure Hank was here when Doris died. We were both with her.

Poignancy is found in the ordinary. "I

Things become clichés because they are apropos." "Breaks

You are looking at your child and it is an ordinary moment, not like they are onstage or hitting a winning shot, just sitting there and you look at them and you know that they are your whole life and that moves you and scares you and makes you want to stop time.

I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure.

He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

I myself do not believe that the Torah is any more or less the revealed Word of God than are Dante's Commedia, Shakespeare's King Lear, or Tolstoy's novels, all works of comparable literary sublimity

Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks.

Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for transport.

A play that takes as its burden the meaning of self-consciousness may hint that inner freedom can be attained only when the protagonist can separate his genius for expanding consciousness from his own passion for theatricality.

No , no I'm not an atheist . it's no fun being an atheist .

Yet any distinction between literature and life is misleading. Literature for me is not merely the best part of life; it is itself the form of life, which has no other form.

Ao contrário do que dizem certos parisienses, o texto está aí não para dar prazer, mas o elevado desprazer ou prazer mais difícil que um texto menor não dará.

To Lincoln, words always mattered most. Newspaper stories lived but a single day, caricatures flamed into view and just as quickly faded, and even the most flattering photographs inevitably receded behind the thick covers of family albums. But words lived forever. Writing, Lincoln believed, was "the great invention of the world.

God gave you a spiritual nature, and no matter how much you have in life, until you connect with Him there will always be an ingredient missing from your life.

pero a veces la Biblia en manos de un hombre determinado es peor que una botella de whisky en las de..., oh, de tu padre. Me

He was prodding her. Let him. They were on safe ground. "Well, in trying to satisfy one amendment, it looks like they rubbed out another one. The Tenth. It's only a small amendment, only one sentence long, but it seemed to be the one that meant the most, somehow.

You tell Cecil I'm about as radical as Cotton Tom Heflin.

Atticus said no, it wasn't that sort of thing, that there were other ways of making people into ghosts.

As people think and work together, a fabric of shared meaning comes into being.

Everything is stories, and stories is everything

Harry G. Frankfurt

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.