1,900 Quotes About Meaning



  • Author Joël Dicker
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    Many of us try to give meaning to our lives, but our lives only have meaning if we can fulfill these three destinies: to love, to be loved, and to know how to forgive. The rest is just a waste of time.

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  • Author Anthony Doerr
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    He wants to tell her what he has learned about the miracles of light, the way a day's light fluxes in tides: pale and gleaming at dawn, the glare of noon, the gold of evening, the promise of twilight -- every second of every day has its own magic. He wants to tell her that when things vanish they become something else, in death we rise again in the blades of grass, the splitting bodies of seeds.

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  • Author Juhani Pallasmaa
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    The gradually growing hegemony of the eye seems to be parallel with the development of Western ego-consciousness and the gradually increasing separation of the self and the world; vision separates us from the world whereas the other senses unite us with it.

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  • Author Elif Batuman
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    I felt a great need to tell him how I was surrounded, overwhelmed, by things of unknown or dubious meaning, things that weren't commensurate to me in any way.

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