Quotes About Meaning

The truth [always] lies in things that have no words.

Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!

The truth is, if what we choose to do with our lives won't make a story meaningful, it won't make a life meaningful either.

The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence.

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

Proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth.

This is truth the poet sings . . .

Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things.

I am searching for the truth. Somewhere, it's in the music.

Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point MY POINT EXACTLY.

I want pictures like these. The kind that can capture a moment, make it real, make it last. I need pictures that do more than reflect. I need pictures that are truth.

What we search for in fiction is not so much reality, but the epiphany of truth.

Platitudes are safe, because they're easy to wink at, but truth is something else again.

Your aim as a photographer is to get a picture of that person that means something. Portraits aren't fantasies; they need to tell a truth.

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

the truth of a poem is its form and its content, its music and its meaning are the same.

Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who made it.

My truth - what I believe - is that there are no answers here and, if you are looking for answers, you'd better choose the question carefully.