Quotes About Significance

But it doesn't matter. The electric things have their lives, too. Paltry as those lives are.

Don't let anybody kid you about the wheel, son; money was mankind's first significant invention.

Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.

Everything means something.

Nothing is just anything.

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it

The meaning of one thing is its connection with another;

And then Serafina understood something for which witches had no word: it was the idea of pilgrimage. She understood why these beings would wait for thousands of years and travel vast distances in order to be close to something important, and how they would feel differently for the rest of time, having been briefly in its presence.

Everything means something," Lyra said severely. "We just have to find out how to read it.

Maybe it means nothing. It just is. Everything means something, Lyra said severely. We just have to find out how to read it.

One hears all sorts of things. The question is whether they matter.

in a little adventure that had culminated in her thinking that everything meant something, if only she could read it. The universe had seemed alive then. There were messages to be read everywhere you looked.

The meaning of something is its connection to something else

Maybe, despite ideology, politics, and history, a genuine catastrophe is always personal bathos at the core. Life can't be impugned for any failure to trivialize people. You have to take your hat off to life for the techniques at its disposal to strip a man of his significance and empty him totally of his pride.

Because history is not the background—history is the stage! And you are on the stage! Oh, how sickening is your appalling ignorance of your own times!

Nobody was anything anymore.

They don't really matter," said Ishmael. "None of those other things make a difference. Love is the strongest thing in the world, you know. Nothing can touch it. Nothing comes close. If we love each other we're safe from it all. Love is the biggest thing there is.

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It's as if when you love someone, they become your reason.

But whether or not you are here, you are here—because these words are for you, and they wouldn't exist if you weren't here in some way.

it's the belief, not the words, that mean everything. it's the floating.

But we comforted ourselves with what we really meant to say, which was: I don't normally feel this good about what I'm doing. Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

Every two people cause and intersection. Every person alters the world.

I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.