1,900 Quotes About Meaning

There is nothing that says more about its creator than the work itself.

Nihilism conditions us to actualize ourselves. It denies nothing of the inherent meaning to existence, and does not create a false "objective" reality based on our perceptions of what we wish did exist. Instead, it charges us to choose what we wish existed, and to work toward making it occur in reality.

Let's always try to paint the truth ... our art must be made to mean something.

Her action in defending Marcão meant one thing to him and something quite different to her; it was so different that it was not even the same event.

There was no meaning in why he was here, but he was, and that was enough.

I had a lot of dreams last night that meant something, but today I'm back to my waking life & nothing makes sense like usual.—Usual Sense

Art is the pithy hyper-reality—of life squeezed of its overwhelmingly meaningless banality.

The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.