Meaning Quotes

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Biology, meaning the science of all life, is a late notion.

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire-It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.

Life is like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning.

The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.

If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.

The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.

In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Truth implies meaning.

We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Alabama citizens, like the vast majority of Americans, respect and value the meaning of decency, and appreciate public institutions that reflect the common values of our society.

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes." And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be, "No."

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

I want to buy them, because historically these have been great engines of enrichment for the middle class, 'historically' meaning now for a good ten years.

Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

The fact is that much misunderstanding is often caused by our modern attempts to limit too strictly the meaning of a Greek word.

Omitting the section of the Pledge that affirms these beliefs strips the message of its meaning. More than any political connotation, this is why the Pledge of Allegiance is more than incomplete without the words 'under God' and 'indivisible.' It is also empty.

Color possesses me. I don't have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know it. That is the meaning of this happy hour: Color and I are one. I am a painter.