Meaning Quotes
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To approach the stories in this way is to rob each author of his own integrity as an author and to deprive him of the meaning that he conveys in his story.
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Women were always ready to give themselves over for love, when all the men really had to offer them was the word and not the meaning behind it.
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An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.
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Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.
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I've never been a snob. It movie is just about stories. And I've never felt just because it's a big screen and you plop down your eight bucks that gives it a special meaning. It's just "Are you good at telling a story?"
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As long as a memory is inaccessible, the mind is unable to change it. But as soon as a story starts being told, particularly if it is told repeatedly, it changes – the act of telling itself changes the tale. The mind cannot help but make meaning out of what it knows, and the meaning we make of our lives changes how and what we remember.
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It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning.
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We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death. We don't know what they mean, but we use them, and this is a mystery.
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The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.
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The full meaning of life, the collective meaning of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young man, I chafed at this state of affairs. But by now I have made peace with it. I even feel a certain honor to be associated with such a mystery.
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People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.
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The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
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It's to try to spread the Word of God - the true meaning of Christmas. And that is more important than anything else.
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What do you suppose is the use of a child without any meaning? Even a joke should have some meaning-- and a child's more imporant than a joke, I hope. You couldn't deny that, even if you tried with both hands.
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It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.
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You're never quite sure where the song is going, because you might not find the word to rhyme with the end of the line. You have to find associative meaning to get you there. So it's rather like doing a crossword puzzle backwards. A kind of strange, three-dimensional, abstract crossword puzzle.
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Our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people derive from their own substance, a meaning widely different from that which we had put into the same words when we uttered them.
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Being named to the Olympic team has special meaning to it because I feel like I've come full circle.
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Maybe I should tell her that things without a meaning are the most beautiful ones.
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But whether thus submissively or not, at least be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
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I see the meaning of apocalypse as an unveiling of our deeper self.
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Abstraction is itself an abstract word and has no single meaning ... Every word in our language is abstract, because it represents something else.
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Life without pain has no meaning.
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Where is it written that lives should have a meaning? So she began to disparage all that struggle of mine to write. She said mockingly: Is the meaning that line of black markings that look like insect shit?
