Quotes About Significance

They were in no way connected now with nature, with the world of real things, which from now onwards lost all its charm and significance, and meant no more to my life than a purely conventional framework, just as the action of a novel is framed in the railway carriage, on a seat of which a traveller is reading it to pass the time.

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

There is something talismanic about familiar words.

Whereas it (modern science) does say that we are an accident in an indifferent universe, it also says that we are a rare accident and thus not pointless.

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Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Most of us will never do great things. But we can do small things in a great way.

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

Ci sono cose. Piccole cose che non dimenticherò, che sono niente e invece restano più forti di tutto.

Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.

Oz really isn't so terrible, Judy. It's just that our parents always ignored us, so he started going around with people who made him feel important. They were spreading hate and used him just as they used me.

You meet thousands of people and none of them really touch you. And then you meet one person and your life is changed forever".

A man with nothing to die for has even less for which to live.

If I'm going to spend a lifetime writing my story, I want it to mean something.

Just for once, I want someone to want me more than anybody else. To put me first.

Love – are you still excited by a coat you wear every day? Love is not a coat – I was told in reply…

Meaningless is everything, until it gains sense in someone's life…

As for "A Grave," it has a significance apart from the literal origin, which was a man who placed himself between my mother and me, and the surf we were watching from the middle ledge of rocks on Monhegan Island [in Maine] after the storm. ("Don't be annoyed," my mother said. "It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing.")

Beneatha: You didn't tell us what Alaiyo means... for all I know, you might be calling me Little Idiot or something... ... Asagai: It means... it means One for Whom Bread--Food--Is Not Enough.

It is not 'only' food, I said heatedly. There's meaning hidden underneath each dish.

Pepper is small in quantity and great in virtue.