Quotes About Significance

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

The name of a person you love is more than language.

Sometimes it seems remarkable how certain moments of our lives stand out from all the others with striking clarity, and are burned into our memories forever.

the experience of motherhood loses nearly everything in its translation to the outside world. In motherhood a woman exchanges her public significance for a range of private meanings, and like sounds outside a certain range they can be very difficult for other people to identify.

Currently, the commodification of difference promotes paradigms of consumption wherein whatever difference the Other inhabits is eradicated, via exchange, by a consumer cannibalism that not only displaces the Other but denies the significance of that Other's history through a process of decontextualization.

Un racconto è significativo quando spezza i propri confini con quell'esplosione di energia spirituale che illumina bruscamente qualcosa che va molto oltre il piccolo e talvolta miserabile aneddoto che narra.

A este señor le lleva un rato comprender que los designios de la Providencia son inescrutables, y que en realidad el milagro ha ocurrido ahora.

Por eso se fija tanto en el recuerdo, por eso se pueden contar tan bien las catástrofes.

viene a ser ese momento en que algo logra su máxima profundidad, su máximo alcance, su máximo sentido, y deja por completo de ser interesante.

A veces observaba sus manos con esa atención ingenua que prestan a las cosas más insignificantes las personas que esperan.

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.

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

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

I'm just trying to matter.

I'm just tryin to matter.

There exists for each of us a geographical fulcrum, a place so saturated with memory that within its precinct the past is always present.

By the time they were done Peter realized that something significant had occurred, an acknowledgment that once made, could not be unmade. The body they had buried might have been a viral, but the person they had buried was a man.

There is power in a name. It is through names that we bring all things into this world, and when they leave, it is names we carry with us, so they are never truly gone.

If things had happened differently, they might have been just like any other brother and sister, their importance to one another fading over time as new connections took precedence. But not the two of them. New people would take the stage, but there would always be a room in their hearts in which only the two of them resided.

Why do certain arbitrary images stay with us, branded upon the walls of memory, while others sink forever into time's abyss?

He had a finger raised in the air for silence even before Rose saw him, but she had no doubt it was for her benefit.

What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than on mutual self respect?

As is usually the case, those who lived at the time did not fully comprehend the enormous consequences of the events they witnessed.

Dare to do things worthy of imprisonment if you mean to be of consequence.