1,900 Quotes About Meaning

...all humans are given the same set of primary-metaphor building blocks, but different language and cultural groups put the blocks together in different ways. Some individuals even force the blocks together in ways that don’t fit – which is the major reason we get mixed metaphors.

And just like that, my mind draws a new connection between the characters. Sometimes it really does feel like a curse, the meaning I can attach to anything.

Nothing like stars to show us our little arguments are meaningless.

Cherry trees are in full bloom for two weeks at the most. The perfect, delicate flowers have come to represent the essence of life itself - shockingly beautiful and heartbreakingly fleeting.

The world is full of people looking for meaning in the shape of a bird not native to this country turning up in this country after all.

Don’t live a life based on utility. My value/salary or profit was X today, and I want X+Y next year. Live life to become more aware and to become more lively and to become happier.

On death the many become one, in life the one becomes many.

All future events are merely a reproduction of the first moment of Love, giving birth to itself from an inner womb that continuously fertilizes itself. Love carries in itself its everlasting renewed beginning.

I didn't really exist. I was in my own world. A world where the body was struggling to survive.