Quotes About Meaning

A little fear, a little history, those things don't mean anything. Only what we do means anything.

If you knew the history of that flute, it would make your brain flip upside-down. And by that, I mean that I would shove you off the carriage for having spied on me.

Conversations with some people remind me of a broken sword. Sharp as hell, but lacking a point.

Names didn't mean a whole lot in the Forests. Or maybe they meant everything. The right ones, that was.

Poems don't deserve numbers

But merely being tradition does not make something worthy.

Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen's voice whispered. She ignored it.

You actually love him, don't you?" Marasi asked. "Well, love is a strong emotion, one that requires careful deliberation to—" "Steris." "Yes." She looked down at her notebook. "It's foolish, isn't it?" "Of course it is," Marasi said. "Love is always a foolish emotion. That's what makes it work.

Kelsier chuckled. "I wonder what I've unleashed upon the world by teaching you Allomancy. Of course, my trainer said the same thing about me." "He was right to worry." "Of course he was.

Being a human was about making sense of chaos, finding meaning among the random elements of the world.

This book means whatever you make of it. For some it will be about the dangers of fame. For others it will be about turning your flaws into talents. For many it will simply be entertainment, which is quite all right. Yet for others it will be about learning to question everything, even that which you believe. For, you see, the most important truths can always withstand a little examination.

Honestly, I don't know that the universe yould really handle everyone being infinite Batmans. Perhaps the point of God was to prevent nonsense like that.

If we can choose, we can change. If we can't change, then choice means nothing.

When one achieves immortality, one must find purpose beyond the struggle to live

An existence of agony is better than no existence at all

Les he mostrado que podemos sobrevivir, pero eso no significa nada. Si no merece la pena vivir esas vidas, no les va a importar nunca. Es como si les ofreciera montones de esferas, pero no les diera nada en lo que gastar sus riquezas. -Kaladin-

People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, then what does it matter whether the people in them actually lived?

But we don't have to be like that," Hurl continued. "That's what I realized. A little fear, a little history, those things don't mean anything. Only what we do means anything.

He met Lightsong's eyes. "You are a god. To me, at least. It doesn't matter how easily you can be killed, how much Breath you have, or how you look. It has to do with who you are and what you mean.

Life, Vin said. You said that the only reason to create something was so that you could destroy it.

It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.

El fracaso es la medida de una vida bien llevada. Y la única forma de vivir sin fracaso es no servir de nada a nadie.

Spren appear when something changes - when fear appears, or when it begins to rain. They are the heart of change, and therefore the heart of all things.

You can't numb those hard feelings without numbing the other affects, our emotions. You cannot selectively numb. So when we numb those, we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness. And then we are miserable, and we are looking for purpose and meaning, and then we feel vulnerable, so then we have a couple of beers and a banana nut muffin. And it becomes this dangerous cycle.