Meaning Quotes

You're the only person who means anything to me in the whole world, you're all I've got...Well then you've got nothin.

~ Garth Ennis

It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back.

~ Joseph Campbell

We all encounter random phenomena, arbitrary occurrences, chance meetings, and eerie coincidences. When we attach our own meaning to these events, we are feeding meaning into the random; we are choosing something arbitrary and assigning our own deeper purpose to it. The problem, though, is that we do this selectively.

~ Michael Vito Tosto

To say that life is meaningless is to express an attitude, not to state a fact

~ Peter Singer

Stop opposing the truths.The truth is truth no matter how you take it. It is not going to be changed for your inconvenience.

~ Bikash Bhandari

A person must claim the meaning behind his or her existence. How we live is our final testament to what we believed in and our journey through the corridor of time determines our decisive character.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The myth of Oedipus . . . arouses powerful intellectual and emotional reactions in the adult-so much so, that it may provide a cathartic experience, as Aristotle taught all tragedy does. [A reader] may wonder why he is so deeply moved; and in responding to what he observes as his emotional reaction, ruminating about the mythical events and what these mean to him, a person may come to clarify his thoughts and feelings. With this, certain inner tensions which are the consequence of events long past may be relieved; previously unconscious material can then enter one's awareness and become accessible for conscious working through. This can happen if the observer is deeply moved emotionally by the myth, and at the sametime strongly motivated intellectually to understand it.

~ Bruno Bettelheim

When love is part of a game, it means nothing. When love is love, it means everything.

~ Kate Mcgahan

How can you put human rights to a popular vote and call it democracy? How many times do you need to redefine or haggle about the meaning of the word EQUALITY?

~ Christina Engela

Death is a terrifying experience... It threatens, with its corrosive power, our possibility of living a humane life. There are two kinds of experiences that can protect those---those able to turn to them---from the terror of the danger of death. One is the certainty of truth, the continuous awakening toward the understanding of the 'ineluctable need for truth,' without which a good life is not possible. The other is the resolute and profound illusion that life has meaning and that the meaning of life is found in performing good deeds.

~ Ricardo Piglia

That I talk about that doesn't mean anything, that my name is like this doesn't mean anything... that I watch this and listen to this doesn't mean anything - Meaning of All By DeYth Banger

~ Deyth Banger

Love is just a word until you meet someone who gives it meaning.

~ Kate Mcgahan

The organism's environment is the sense it makes of the world. This environment is a place of significance and valence, as a result of the global action of the organism.

~ Evan Thompson

From time to time, I would gaze up at the stars after a night shift and think that they looked like a glowing desert, and I myself was a poor child abandoned in the desert... I thought that life was truly an accident among accidents in the universe. The universe was an empty palace, and humankind the only ant in the entire palace. This kind of thinking infused the second half of my life with a conflicted mentality: Sometimes I thought life was precious, and everything was so important; but other times I thought humans were insignificant, and nothing was worthwhile. Anyway, my life passed day after day accompanied by this strange feeling, and before I knew it, I was old...

~ Liu Cixin

What else is there to do?

~ William Golding

The white-hot singularity at the core of the Machine is – ultimately - a fear of death. It's the inevitability of a journey's end and the threat of a question nobody can honestly answer: what does it mean to make the most of a life? How can you tell that you've spent your time well? There is no metric, no answer key at the back of the book. It's a question that I think everyone had to answer for themselves, and hold tight onto that answer with both hands.

~ Jared Stone

Before the beginning of the world, the triune God existed as Father, Son, and Spirit -- existing as three persons, yet one essence. Before there was an earth, before there was a cosmos, before there was anything, there was the triune God existing in this circular relationship between each person of the Godhead. He is perfectly happy, perfectly content, and perfectly together. When God creates, what is the purpose of creation? What is the purpose of making people? Why is God speaking with them and walking in the garden with them? He is increasing the circle. This is how God made the world; he enlarged the circle. Adam and Eve were in paradise because they were in the circle of God's love.

~ Zach Weihrauch

Transported to a different culture, thought often loses its subtlety and can even rampage like a wild beast.

~ Minae Mizumura

Most information doesn’t constitute a story. Think of a telephone directory: lots of information, strong cast, but a bit weak on narrative. What counts in a story is its meaning. And that’s a very different concept from information.

~ Ian Stewart

Empiricism assumes that objects can be understood independendy of observing subjects. Truth is therefore assumed to lie in a world external to the observer whose job is to record and faithfully reflect the attributes of objects. This logical empiricism is a pragmatic version of that scientific method which goes under the name of 'logical positivism', and is founded in a particular and very strict view of language and meaning.

~ David Harvey

Something acquires meaning for an organism to the extent that it relates (either positively or negatively) to the norm of the maintenance of the organism's integrity.

~ Evan Thompson

Phonocentrism places higher value on spoken language as being more primary than and thus superior to written language, which it conceives as necessarily corrupting the original Subject—the center of meaning.

~ Minae Mizumura

That's what meaning is—a special additive like salt or garlic that could make even the most fetid piece of meat seem palpable, even delicious.

~ Barbara Ehrenreich

It is enough to know, too much to see.

~ Sally Gardner

A meaningful life is the life full of meaningful relationships. Create yours.

~ Utpal Vaishnav

And what's beyond vastness? It shrinks...

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

The man I am writing about is not famous. It may be that he never will be. It may be that when his life at last comes to an end he will leave no more trace of his sojourn on earth than a stone thrown into a river leaves on the surface of the water.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

How could one leap on the back of life and wring its scruff?

~ Virginia Woolf

Not every illness can be overcome. But many people allow illness to disfigure their lives more than it should. They cave in needlessly. They ignore and weaken whatever powers they have for standing erect. There is always a margin within which life can be lived with meaning and even with a certain measure of joy, despite illness.

~ Norman Cousins

nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know.

~ Paul Bowles

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.

~ Gregory Benford

Finding meaning in the moment is what gives those meanings a value worth remembering.

~ Steven Redhead

What does it mean to be healthy? Heal Thy.

~ J.r. Rim

I am not here to be average, I am not here to be great, I am not here to be successful, and I am not here to be happy, I am here to simply be all of me.

~ Ray Mancini

I opened up a dictionaryAnd tried to find a meaning in a hurry.Turned the pages to look for the word -- PerfectAnd saw you listed there, coz I know you're worth it!

~ Ritika Chhabra

Sometimes I just say that to read one thing more than twice is just a losing of time, but some stuff are used a lot of times, are read a lot of times until the meaning is get...

~ Deyth Banger

. . . for a moment, perhaps an hour, they would wait, wait for something, and when that waiting was over, it was simply dismissed, goodbyes stated, reading materials closed, a momentary pause in the day that did not hold up to whatever came next.Waiting was often a resented gift, imparted to those who accepted it grudgingly in the hopes that something better would come along when the gift was tossed aside, boxed away for the next recipient.

~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

And the shower of roses spun around me, inviting me to take part in their ever-present waltz.

~ Gina Marinello-Sweeney

There should be a purpose and meaning given to life.

~ Steven Redhead

But I am not those people. I am just the biologist, I don’t require any of this to have a deeper meaning.

~ Jeff Vandermeer