Quotes About Meaning

Y le sonriera con la sonrisa de otros tiempos pero nada mas que eso, la sonrisa vacia, la costumbre de una sonrisa donde talves habitaba la lastima

con en la pelvis el signo de Antonin Artaud

A veces me convenzo de que la estupidez se llama triángulo, de que ocho por ocho es la locura o un perro.

Sólo viviendo absurdamente se podría romper alguna vez este absurdo infinito», se repitió Oliveira.

Y era tan natural cruzar la calle, subir los peldaños del puente, entrar en su delgada cintura y acercarme a la Maga que sonreía sin sorpresa, convencida como yo de que un encuentro casual era lo menos casual en nuestras vidas

estoy vivo —dijo Traveler mirándolo en los ojos—. Estar vivo parece siempre el precio de algo. Y vos no querés pagar nada. Nunca lo quisiste

Je ne veux pas mourir sans avoir compris pourquoi j'avais vécu.

Lo absurdo no son las cosas, lo absurdo es que las cosas estén ahí y las sintamos como absurdas.

pues se puede sentir pena por una casa o por un lugar. Y más por una casa y un lugar que tanto significaron para mí en un tiempo y que aún seguían significándolo como comprobé al regresar a ellos después de años sin verlos.

Against psychoanalysis we should oppose the ideal of an ego which does not abdicate, and which intends to remain conscious, autonomous, and sovereign in the face of the nocturnal and subterranean part of his soul and the demonic character of sexuality. This ego does not feel either 'repressed' or psychotically torn apart, but achieves an equilibrium of all his faculties ordered in accordance with a higher significance of living and acting.

The revulsion towards and violent detachment from nature leads to its desecration, to the destruction of the organic conception of the world as a cosmos, as an order of forms reflecting a higher meaning, as the 'visible manifestation of the invisible' - a conception (of Indo-European origin) which is an integral part of the Classical view of the world and which also lies at the basis of various forms of knowledge of a different sort compared to profane, modern science.

It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

I'm just trying to matter.

What is the moral meaning of our own gods?

Hail, Dog of God, was how he welcomed me my first day in Demarest. Took a week before I figured out what the hell he meant. God. Domini. Dog. Canis. Hail, Dominicanis.

It's one of those easy stories because in essence it explains it all.

Si me preguntan, diría que no creo que las maldiciones existan. Pienso que solo existe la vida. Y eso basta.

What Hatüey said on the pyre is a legend in itself: Are there white people in Heaven? Then I'd rather to Hell)

Ich gebe nur zu bedenken, daß die meisten Dinge von Wichtigkeit, die jemals geschehen sind, mehr als nur einen Grund hatten.

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.

Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.

History is more than data, more than facts, more than science and scholarship. These things are merely the means to a greater end. History is a story—the story of ourselves. Where do we come from? How have we survived? How can we avoid the mistakes of the past? Do we matter, and if we do, what is our proper place upon the earth?

Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more?