Quotes About Meaning

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

Our own life has to be our message.

In my heart I know the truth, but my mind cannot accept the reality of what this all means.

The truth is, some relationships are supposed to last forever, and some are only supposed to last a few days. That's the way life is.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

I seek a deeper truth, but I don't think I have to go to a building designated for worship to find it.

The power of art is the power of truth.

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

Our lives are the only meaningful expression of what we believe and in Whom we believe. And the only real wealth, for any of us, lies in our faith.

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

The truth that could be extracted from words was such a fluctuating, relative truth.

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.

Apparently, 'conspiracy stuff' is now shorthand for unspeakable truth.

One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

Truth like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society.

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal.

One can hardly be Indian and not know that almost every accent, which hand you eat your food with, has some deeper symbolic truth, reality.

The strength of a story is the truth you find in it.

Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.