1,900 Quotes About Meaning

even the silence,if you listened,meant something.

She gasped. “You know what your problem is? You don’t take yourself… or anything… seriously enough!”She sat rigidly, her teeth and her buttocks clenched tight, nostrils flaring with each impassioned breath, tears burning the back of her eyelids. Was she really having this debate with Bruce Koczynski? A man she believed incapable of these intense opinions and complex ideas? She didn’t even know he had the vocabulary. It was utterly disorienting.

A stone, a figure, a sign, a word reaching us isolated from its context is only that stone, figure, sign, or word: we can try to define them, to describe them as they are, and no more than that; whether, beside the face they show us, they also have a hidden face, is not for us to know. The refusal to comprehend more than what the stones show us is perhaps the only way to evince respect for their secret; trying to guess is a presumption, a betrayal of that true, lost meaning.

Auntie had nothing to say to that. Whatever was on this man's mind, it had nothing to do with her. There were times when you couldn't fix what was broken with words, and this looked like one of those times.

What should I take? Something that will not be missed. In the wood at midnight, a magic flower.

The questions philosophers ask are not so much meaningless as irrelevant.

It's true that a picture is worth a thousand words, but it's also true that a word is worth a thousand pictures.

With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.

The children laughing without knowing why - isn't that beautiful?