Meaning Quotes

Religion is the search for ultimate meaning.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder

We suffer from the malady of words, and have no trust in any feeling that is not stamped with its special word.

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

The word is only a representation of the meaning, even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning.

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.

When I use a word, ’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.

Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

In most people's vocabularies, design means veneer. It's interior decorating. It's the fabric of the curtains and the sofa. But to me, nothing could be further from the meaning of design.

My Ego taught me a new pride, I teach it to men: No longer to bury the head in the sand of heavenly things, but to carry it freely, an earthly head which creates meaning for the earth!

If there is no meaning in it, " said the King, "that saves a world of trouble, you know, as we needn't try to find any. And yet I don't know.

We know the meaning so long as no one asks us to define it.

I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew

You think, because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers and toes because you do.

Life is less about finding and more about seeking.

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

Or help one fainting RobinUnto his Nest againI shall not live in vain.

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back.

Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

Each of us has his own inner concentration camp... We must deal with, with forgiveness and patience-as full human beings, as we are and what we will become.

When a person can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I, which is my life, the power to create.

Every person has a longing to be significant, to make a contribution, to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.

I knew in that moment that everything happens for a reason, but we can’t always know the reason when the journey begins. Some things we can only understand at the end of our journey.

In the absence of a story or foundation that gives hope or meaning, life has become a never-ending quest for pleasure and experience. Instead of being good, people want to feel good.

Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.

There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable.

I sort of kind of said something a little like that but maybe not clearly enough to sound like that... But it's what I meant.

Life has the meaning we give it, no more, no less.

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

Life truly is what you make it. The purpose and meaning of life is the purpose and meaning that you give it.

You can put anything into words, except your own life

To deal with history [life] means to abandon one's self to chaos but to retain a belief in the ordination and the meaning. It is a very serious task.

The process of leniency involves accepting the reality of the current situation and finding a satisfying meaning therein, as opposed to misconstruing or denying the facts of the situation.

Success is meaningless without fulfilment - both begin within

If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until you're sixty-five.

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.

Apology is not about saying I'm sorry, but it is about the meaning you put behind the apology and admitting that you are the wrong part.

I saw a dead bird flying through a broken sky. I heard it, and it said, "The world will never understand.

Lightly, lightly, very lightly, A wind passes very lightlyAnd goes away, always very lightly.And I don’t know what I thinkAnd I don’t want to know.

Your life is not a countdown to your death, but a stepping stone for the lives that will live after you. Squander today, and you will find yourself useless tomorrow.

We had the experience but missed the meaning, an approach to the meaning restores the experience

The world is changeable, and its ability to change is so fragile that a single person can be responsible for it.

Write as if life has no meanings without writing.

Free will, determinism, meaning, existence, etc. are academic problems, not problems in life.