Quotes About Meaning

The whole world's a bottle, And life's but a dram, When the bottle gets empty, It sure ain't worth a damn.

ah mama what care the dead t drink up their own toasts? spirits slurping candle syrup affects whose emptiness?

The highest purpose of art is to inspire.

It's easy to see without looking too far that not much is really sacred.

When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke

You don't decide what your purpose is in life you discover it. Your purpose is your reason for living.

Your purpose explains what you are doing with your life. Your vision explains how you are living your purpose. Your goals enable you to realize your vision. - Bob Proctor

What do you mean? Trump asked. Just run the presses—print money.

Well, just because someone might be a source doesn't necessarily make them Deep Throat

If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.

because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.

Y quizá la única manera de producir una obra de arte perdurable sea no tomándola demasiado en serio, no dándole mayor importancia, distrayéndose un poco o, como dirían los psicólogos actuales, dejando que la subconsciencia influya

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story

El sentido procura una dicha duradera y transmisible, mientras que el placer solitario dura lo que dura un relámpago. Sin embargo, cuando el placer se une al sentido, la vida hace que merezca la pena partir piedras por ella.

L'Amour est une surprise qui nous arrache à l'insipide, l'attachement est un lien qui se tisse au quotidien.

He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

What an incorrigible nonentity one must be to play only one role in life, to occupy only one place in society, to always mean one and the same thing!

For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name

There is nothing to fear. There is no such thing as death. Death has nothing to do with us. But you said something about being talented--- that it makes one different. Now, that does have something to do with us. And talent in the highest and broadest sense means talent for life.

You said that facts are meaningless, unless meanings are put into them. Well, Christianity, the mystery of the individual, is precisely what must be put into the facts to make them meaningful.

For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.

Ecco che cos'era la vita, che cos'era l'esperienza, che cosa inseguivano coloro che andavano in cerca di avventure, ecco a che cosa mirava l'arte: ritornare a casa propria, ai propri affetti, riprendere la vita

In a single wave of meaning the triumphant purity of being.

I understand intimacy and life quite differently.