Quotes about Meaning

God was there, and yet people believed they still had to go on looking, because it seemed too simple to accept that life was an act of faith.

Love never comes just a little bit at a time, I thought, as I watched him, absorbed in contemplation of the Virgin. The previous day, the world made sense, even without love's presence. But now we needed each other in order to see the true brilliance of things.

Why am I unhappy? The question carries with it the virus that will destroy everything.

What remains will be the love that moves the heavens, the stars, people, flowers, insects, the love that obliges us all to walk across the ice despite the danger, that fills us with joy and with fear, and gives meaning to everything.

And, in that mood, he was grateful to be in love. When you are in love, things make even more sense, he thought.

I only know that a life without cause is a life without effect.

Words are life set down on paper.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.

Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words.

The purpose of art is nothing less than the upliftment of the human spirit.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.