1,900 Quotes About Meaning

If you're trying to do something where you will inevitably fail and be rejected repeatedly before you achieve your goal, then you will need a nonstandard relationship with winning, focusing on incremental goals.

Obsessions are the only things that matter.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.

but it's not safe and I can feel him slipping away, so I just get out one more sentence. "Stay with me." As the tendrils of sleep syrup pull me down, I hear him whisper a word back but I don't catch it.

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

Not everything that can be counted counts.Not everything that counts can be counted.