Meaning Quotes

To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow... dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

To take photographs means to recognize - simultaneously and within a fraction of a second - both the fact itself and the rigorous organization of visually perceived forms that give it meaning. It is putting one's head, one's eye and one's heart on the same axis.

Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

It's precisely the disappointing stories, which have no proper ending and therefore no proper meaning, that sound true to life.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.

The worst thing is always thinking of titles for records, with some reason behind them, and she just came out with the word, which she thought was a good word, a hard word, and since then we've sort of attached loads of meaning to it.

It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is the meaning of committees. But the real work must always be done by one or two men.

The most mysterious feminine factor, the existence that we men, we don't know. It's woman. It's feminine. That's what the sword is about. That's the symbolic meaning of the sword.

Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one.

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.

America is not just a power, it is a promise. It is not enough for our country to be extraordinary in might; it must be exemplary in meaning.

The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.