Quotes About Meaning

Exactly. When is comes to anything halfway important, you just don't get it. It's amazing to me that you can put a piece of fiction together' 'Yeah, well, that's a whole different thing.' (from Honey Pie)

As he watched his father, Tengo started to have doubts about the difference between a person being alive and being dead. Maybe there really wasn't much of a difference to begin with, he though, maybe we just decided, for convenience's sake, to insist on a difference.

Metaphysics is never more than semantic pleasantries anyway.

You need to use the thread of logic, as best you can, to skillfully sew onto yourself everything that's worth living for.

If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. Don't you think so? They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words.

There's no sense forcing yourself if you don't feel like it. Tell you the truth, I've had sex with lots of guys, but I think I did it mostly out of fear. I was scared not to have somebody putting his arms around me, so I could never say no. That's all. Nothing good ever came of sex like that. All it does is grind down the meaning of life a piece at a time.

Lo correcto, ¿qué diablos significa eso? ¿Me lo puedes explicar? A decir verdad, no sé muy bien qué es lo correcto. Lo que no es correcto sí lo sé, pero lo correcto, ¿qué es?

So called art films. Movies like that never explained what was going on. Explanations were rejected as some kind of evil that could only destroy the films reality.

Someone who can search for something is happy. Searching gives a meaning to life. Nowadays it's not so easy to find something you might be looking for. The most important thing, however, is the search itself, the way you take. It's not so important where it leads. that's why my characters are always looking for something, maybe only a cat, a sheep or a wife, but that is at least the beginning of a story.

Indeed, our recent research has led us to conclude that one of the most reliable indicators and predictors of true leadership is an individual's ability to find meaning in negative events and to learn from even the most trying circumstances. Put another way, the skills required to conquer adversity and emerge stronger and more committed than ever are the same ones that make for extraordinary leaders.

That was the strangest thing about weddings, from Amos's point of view, that they pretended to be sacred occasions but in fact had no meaning. Because a marriage isn't a marriage until it's over, he thought, until the couple looked back, years later, at the moment they wed and said, "Oh, that's what really happened that day.

If I could have gotten my nose close enough I would have inhaled leaded gasoline until I was retarded.

They named you Taos because that's where they went on their honeymoon, and there was something in it, something beyond the sentimental or nostalgic, they were trying to say: once we went so far. And you were how far they went. There is no more distant star, I now believe.

las historias, llevadas a término, son exploraciones de los limites de la legitimidad.

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

When I opened a book now, I was seized with desperation. I felt as if I was madly in love. It was as if I were in a confession booth and the characters in the book were on the other side telling me their most intimate secrets. When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made me feel as if I were the center of the universe.

When I open a book now, I was seized with desperation. I felt as if I was madly in love. It was as if I were in a confession booth and the characters in the book were on the other side telling me their most intimate secrets. When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made me feel as if I were the center of the universe.

When I read, I was a philosopher and it was up to me to figure out the meaning of things. Reading made me feel as if I were the center of the universe.

Wherever a great soul utters its thoughts, there is Golgatha.

The Purpose of Life is Life itself it

Era como una de esas comidas de negocios en las que todo el mundo habla durante tanto tiempo de cosas que nada tienen que ver con el tema, que al final resulta demasiado embarazoso destruir la magia de una ocasión tan deliciosa y puramente social, con lo que uno nunca llega realmente al quid de la cuestión.

I don't think any more that my life is about what has happened to me. It's about what I choose to believe. It's not what I can see, but what I think is out there. And in the end, this end, here is what I believe. The heart is a wild and fugitive creature. The heart is a dog who comes home.

I like being mistaken for someone useful.

True happines is not attained through self gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose