Meaning Quotes
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I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.
Eyvind Kang
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Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin of silence, so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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God never said He'd eliminate all of the chaos from our lives; He just said He'd bring meaning to it.
Bob Goff
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The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable.
Sigmund Freud
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I have heterochromia, meaning that one eye has two split colours. It's a diagonal cut in half. It's amazing how many people don't know that until they meet me and we talk long enough for them to see it.
Dan Payne
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The task is not to search for meaning, but to bring meaning to every situation you are in.
Alberto Villoldo
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He had rid himself so fiercely of memory, language, the capacity to find meaning that it seemed obvious the hatred he had for himself, for his own skin, for his moods, for his thoughts and words, for the brutal corner of the world that had enveloped him.
Elena Ferrante
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You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning.
Arnold Hano
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If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.
George Eliot
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Most humans feel the transcendent temptation, the emotional drive to festoon the universe with large-scale meaning.
Paul Kurtz
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The meaning is the ending.
Apostolos Doxiadis
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There is wisdom in waves. Some surfers see it right away, others never do. To find success in surfing, we must learn to be in harmony with nature. This will bring a sense of peace. By sharing this peace, and contributing to other people's happiness, we can find the true meaning of life. Keep surfing . . .
Gerry Lopez