Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves.

Better than a thousand sayings Made up of useless wordsIs one word of meaning Which calms you to hear it.

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

You’ve a perfect right to call me as impractical as a dormouse, and to feel I’m out of touch with life. But this is the point where we simply can’t see eye to eye. We’ve...

Pretentiousness isn’t always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don’t mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the...

…that, to repeat what I heard for years and years and suspect you’ve been hearing over and over, yourself, something’s meaning is nothing more or less than its function. Et cetera et cetera et cetera....

Who says we don’t want to be inspired? We fucking want to be inspired! What the fuck is wrong with us wanting to be inspired? Everyone acts like it’s some crazy idea, some outrageous ungrantable...

I’m living at a peak of clarity and beauty I never knew existed. Every part of me is attuned to the work. I soak it up into my pores during the day, and at night—in...

I only found myself when I stopped looking. . .

Man’s inhumanity to man will continue as long as man loves God more than he loves his fellow man. The love of God means wasted love. ‘For God and Country’ means a divided allegiance—a 50...

Life is a thick dictionary, where you can find the meaning of anything.

No, no. Not a genius. This is like what reading is like for you. You look at the squiggles and loops, and the puzzle opens until suddenly nothing means something, something more than the sum...

Life without God is a long and fruitless search for enjoyment, meaning, and fulfillment.

If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it’s that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed,...

I think of you as a friend. I used to think “friend” was just another word… Nothing more, nothing less. But when I met you, I realized what was important was the word’s meaning.

Your life is enriched with meaning when allow yourself to become inspired, set goals, and charge after them with passion.

Weapons are like money; no one knows the meaning of enough.

comes closer to the core meaning of high crimes and misdemeanors.

[Your] search for meaning in the world… can only really be fulfilled by the greater purpose that has sent [you] here in the first place.

Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.

Apology is not about saying I’m sorry, but it is about the meaning you put behind the apology and admitting that you are the wrong part.

Theism, as religious people typically hold it, does not merely state that some entity created the universe, but that the universe was created specifically with humans in mind as the most important part of creation....

If you don’t know what you value in life, then you won’t be able to make any meaningful decisions you can live with in the future.

‘Mysticism’ here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world.

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

Leaving out appraisal also would render the biological description of the phenomena of emotion vulnerable to the caricature that emotions without an appraisal phase are meaningless events. It would be more difficult to see how...

What is the point of our lives? There isn’t any. I can’t seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those...

Anything I run across can light up the circuitry of my brain, and set me on an adventure. To research strains of yeast; hiccup fetishists; the proper use of inverse, obverse, converse and reverse; the...

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

Reason begets honesty, and honesty, if given its head, begets confidence; so consequently, there is a sort of grand authority in the stances of those who know why they are standing.

A part of me genuinely wanted to be the worst because I was so sick of everyone fighting to be the best.

I love letting her know how much she means to me. A love in secret is but a shadow that’s cold and lonely.

Seduced by the spectacular theoretical and practical successes of the objective sciences into thinking that the methods and criteria of those sciences were the only means to truth, philosophers sought to apply those same methods...

I’ve learned something, and that is that the real meaning is in the public hearings, … I ask questions in the public hearing, and those are the answers that go into the transcript.

So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plunges...

All I know of heaven and all I know of death is in this park: an elegant universe in ceaseless motion, teeming with ruined ruins and screaming children.

When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.

I’m left with the pages of my life just turning,The story being filled slowly day by day,But the end is approaching and it is out of my hands, Hopefully I will reach my climax,Hopefully I...

Anya looked upon Nin admirably. Having him as a partner-in-crime—if only on this one occasion, which she hoped would only be the start of something more—was more revitalizing than the cheap thrills of a cookie-cutter...

We’re wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn’t, we start looking around for the real world.

Were all trying to find meaning to make sense of our realities; in search of happiness within, Without realising our happiness within; is the only reality that gives life a meaning.

All words, in every language, are metaphors.

Life has the meaning we give it, no more, no less.

What interests me in all these papers is not Susan Burling Ward, the novelist and illustrator, and not Oliver Ward the engineer, and not the West they spend their lives in. What really interests me...

I will not impress you with words, I will prove to you their definition. It’s a genuine vocabulary.

Ever felt like you are more than flesh and bones and blood that decay back into cosmic dirt? You are. Your existence did not begin with your birth and it will not end with your...

In conscious life, we achieve some sense of ourselves as reasonably unified, coherent selves, and without this action would be impossible. But all this is merely at the ‘imaginary’ level of the ego, which is...

To my knowledge, no one in or out of the field has ever been able to cite a game worthy of comparison with the great dramatists, poets, filmmakers, novelists and composers. That a game can...

DAMN, v. A word formerly much used by the Paphlagonians, the meaning of which is lost. By the learned Dr. Dolabelly Gak it is believed to have been a term of satisfaction, implying the highest...

I pass and I stay, like the Universe.