1,900 Quotes About Meaning

Grace softened a little. "Sorry. But they're just words. They don't mean anything.

The trouble is, you think something is everything and fail to realize that everything is something.

Great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their life work disappears.

The Apocalypse can take different forms. The least dramatic, at first sight, is the one in which man perishes under an avalanche of useless objects, empty words, and excessive activity.

It's statistically improbable and logically impossible, but why not try.

In a world without meaning nothing is meaningless.

What song, what home, what calm or one clarity can I not quite come to, never quite see: this field, this sky, this tree.

Sometimes he felt his loneliness. But these moments of solitude and loneliness gave meaning to his existence. He would keep drifting from moment to moment - inhaling the fragrances of these moments as one inhaled from the flowers in a garden.

We need to think of the self as a continuum, a steady story over time. The mind is always searching for similarities, associations, repetitions, because they create meaning.