Quotes About Meaning

Listening to Aunt Eliza, one could learn that when people talk too fast the content becomes as superfluous as the speed.

Most poetry just confounds me. I really want to like it, but I can't help thinking it's a hoax. (p. 24)

Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?

the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept the burden that someone 'can't live without you' is unrealistic. It infantilises that person and overburdens you. p.226

At first when you're learning a foreign language, what seems strange is that a different set of words exists for the things you know. But then, after a while, what seems strange is that so many words are the same, that two entirely different peoples, an ocean apart, would choose the exact same sounds. In the end, what causes the most trouble are the words that sound the same but mean different things: déception, nostalgie, grâce.

The sense of loss was deeply familiar - a sudden hole, the universe altered, a recognition of the end of something meaningful and important. How often does one get the chance to be this close to a wild being?

I'm not a gentleman, I'm a nobleman, a distinction I suspect you understand very well.

And remembered—all he'd nearly forgotten, all her wild responses had driven from his mind. This was one seduction he had to, needed to, manage perfectly—this time, there was meaning beyond the act. Seducing Patience Debbington was too important to rush—conquering her senses, her body, was only the first step. He didn't want her just once—he wanted her for a lifetime.

Education is an adventurous quest for the meaning of life, involving an ability to think things through. --Z. Applewhite.

In truth it matters less what we do... than how we do it and why.

The only truth is music.

Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart

Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

If you're not passionate about what you're doing, you need to stop doing it. You aren't living your truth.

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.

Art for art's sake is an empty phrase. Art for the sake of truth, art for the sake of the good and the beautiful, that is the faith I am searching for.

I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

OBSTINATE, adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.

Being happy or unhappy - is that really the most important thing? Knowing the truth would be a different kind of happiness - a more satisfying kind, I think, even if it turned out to be a sad kind.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.