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Quotes About Meaning

Distance sometimes endears friendships, and sweetens it - for separation from those we love shows us, by the loss, their real value and dearness to us.
~ James Howell
I think of the irony that in our language [Nepali] the word for love can also mean deceit.
~ Jane Wilson-Howarth
I love the figure to get across what I feel.
~ Jason Shawn Alexander
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
~ Jean Cocteau
This is the basis for the joy of love when there is joy; we feel that our existence is justified.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
The thinnest slice would be teeming with memories of a love so strong it turned you inside out and left you gasping, and would be an identical match to a slice stored in the heart of a soul mate.
~ Jodi Picoult
A world without love would be no world.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
How can a people who do not mean to understand death hope to understand love, and who will sound the alarm?
~ John Cheever
Your whole life is really only all about that dear place in you where you know you've realized, you love, and you are reached.
~ John de Ruiter
The measure of love is to have no mean, the end to be everlasting.
~ John Lyly
Love: A term which has no meaning if defined.
~ John Ralston Saul
There is nothing so great or so goodly in creation, but that it is a mean symbol of the gospel of Christ, and of the things He has prepared for them that love Him.
~ John Ruskin
I love the idea of books being more than books, or being, rather, something other than books.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Love gives life purpose and meaning.
~ Joyce Meyer
we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death
~ Julian Barnes
Everything amounts to nothing if you don't love someone or something.
~ Julie Taymor
Love is the special feeling that brightens all our days, And the secret to its meaning is found in simple ways.
~ Kai Knudsen
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.
~ Karen Thompson Walker
I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.
~ Kelli O'Hara
If I am not in love, nothing is meaningful to me. I have no energy.
~ Kevin Ayers
I wonder what the difference between love and control is, but I'm afraid to look those words up in a dictionary.
~ Kevin Sampsell
I love art. But I love it because it is the expression of a living philosophy. It's the leftovers. Art is what's left over from life.
~ Kirsha Kaechele