Meaning Quotes

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.