Quotes About Meaning

Life is servitude if we lack the freedom to die.

It is true: Montaigne achieved little else in his life aside from posing the question: "How should I live?

and there's no point in a life lived aimlessly.

Tu étais pour moi - comment dirai-je? toute comparaison serait trop faible - tu étais précisément tout pour moi, toute ma vie. Rien n'existait que dans la mesure où cela se rapportait à toi; rien dans mon existence n'avait de sens que si cela me rapprochait de toi. Tu métamorphosais ma façon de vivre.

Ama ne kadar soyut görünürlerse görünsünler, düÅŸünceler de bir dayanak noktas?na gereksinim duyarlar, yoksa kendi çevrelerinde anlams?zca dönmeye baÅŸlarlar; onlar da hiçliÄŸe katlanamaz.

Bu yaÅŸlardaki genç k?zlar için okuduklar? ÅŸiirlerin iyi mi kötü mü, sahici mi yoksa uyduruk mu olduÄŸunun hiç önemi yoktur. Dizeler onlar için susuzluklar?n? dindiren kadehlerdir, içindeki ÅŸaraba dikkat etmezler, çünkü daha içmeden sarhoÅŸturlar.

Alles existierte nur insofern, als es Bezug hatte auf Dich, alles in meiner Existenz hatte nur Sinn, wenn es mit Dir verbunden war.

Ölmem sana ac? verecek olsayd? eÄŸer, o zaman ölmezdim.

Daha iyi bir insan olduÄŸumu iddia edecek cesaretim yok elbette, ama daha mutlu bir insan olduÄŸumu biliyorum, çünkü o buz gibi donuk hayat?m için yeni bir anlam buldum, yaÅŸam?n kendisinden baÅŸka bir sözcükle aç?klayamayaca??m bir anlam.

Perhaps I am taking a certain risk in placing more faith in you than in my professional conscience — ah well, I'll take the responsibility for that. After all, we both mean equally well by this poor sick girl.

The world existed for me only in relationship to you.

Dostoyevski bir y???n bilgiyi yeni bir insanl?k için feda etmiÅŸtir ve bu yeni insanl??a en derin s?rr?n?, en son formülünü, en unutulmaz sözünü söylemiÅŸtir: "Hayat? hayat?n anlam?ndan daha çok sevin.

Sentí un regusto amargo en los labios. El regusto de la fugacidad. ¿Para qué vivimos, si el viento tras nuestros zapatos ya se está llevando nuestras últimas huellas?

Sentii sulle labbra un gusto amaro, il gusto della caducità: a che scopo vivere, quando il vento che ci sospinge spazza via anche l'ultima traccia del passo appena compiuto?

The very resolve to help and from now on to be of use to others inspired me with a kind of enthusiasm. In my elation I felt like singing, like doing something quite crazy. It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

Toda nuestra fantasía y toda nuestra lógica no pueden facilitarnos sino una idea insuficiente del origen de una obra de arte.

Yeryüzünde hiçbir ÅŸey insana hiçlik kadar bask? yapamaz

I don't need to go onto Facebook and pretend to have friends I've never even met. To my mind, that kind of destroys the meaning of the word 'friend.' I take exception to that. Because I value and respect friendship.

Life is a luxury, isn't it? there's no use in it--but how delightful!

There was a magic in the words. I suppose their power lay in their utter futility.

For it is a peculiarity of persons who lead rich, emotional lives, and who (as the saying is) live intensely and with a wild poetry, that they read all kinds of meanings into comparatively simple actions, especially the actions of other people, who do not live intensely and with a wild poetry.

I found, after spending ten years as a journalist, learning to say exactly what I meant in short sentences, that I must learn, if I was to achieve literature and favourable reviews, to write as though I were not quite sure about what I meant but was jolly well going to say something all the same in sentences as long as possible.

All the same, I don't mean nothin' you wouldn't like yer mas to know about, see? That's straight, that is. It's Art, and that makes all the difference. *When it ain't Art it's dirt, but if it's Art it's all right, see?*

She liked to watch her father as he read, and to listen to the smoothly rolling tones; she felt no curiosity about what the words meant. It was only Shakespeare and she was used to him.