Quotes About Significance

I'm not saving anybody's life, I'm not a teacher, I'm not working for UNICEF. I don't think I'm some big deal.

People who don't count won't count.

What surrounded me did not count. All that counted was made of words.

Moreover, what purpose, if any, is served by your stories? Whom do they benefit?

Ho esagerato ancora prima di cominciare, perché è vero: niente è mai grave quanto potrebbe essere.

Later they will remember those moments with you. But they are not memories of you, but the feeling they were immortal because you made them gods.

To capture the drama of the unconscious, one had to start with the key, and the key was the dream. But the novelist's task was to pursue this dream, to unravel its meaning; the goal was to reach the relation of dream to life; the suspense was in finding this which led to a deeper significance of our acts.

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Une vie ne vaut rien, mais rien ne vaut une vie.

There's nothing essentially romantic about things like roses or jewelry. Romance starts as some blank concept, and then you just fill it in with objects so you have something to point to when you want to make it real.

We prove the value we attach to things by the time we devote to them.

The insignificant matters of daily life are the important tests of eternity because they prove what Spirit truly dwells within us.

We are each the love of someone's life --- The Confessions of Max Tivoli

What if one day you meet someone, Arthur, and it feels like it could never be anyone else? Not because other people are less attractive, or drink too much, or have issues in bed, or have to alphabetize every fucking book or organize the dishwasher in some way you just can't live with. It's because they aren't this person.

There is nothing like that for the boys who did not go to war; they were not soldiers, and did not die. They are burned out of history, for nothing blazes quite as hot as shame. There are no bills in circulation. But I have signed their names to this story. I have signed all of our names. How else will we be remembered?

The deeper and more debilitating form of powerlessness is to be cut off from making meaning.

Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

Like why Lena always thought of Ritz crackers when she shaved her legs. Who knew why? And did it even matter?

But I don't belong to any one, therefore attachment to anything means betrayal, self-banishment, renounce self-continuity, self-transcendence; the ego only there to give significance

I invite you to try to think of a source of value that has absolutely nothing to do with the (actual or potential) experience of conscious beings. Take a moment to think about what this would entail: whatever this alternative is, it cannot affect the experience of any creature (in this life or in any other). Put this thing in a box, and what you have in that box is—it would seem, by definition—the least interesting thing in the universe.

Emotion is what counts: it is more valuable than anything.

All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not.