Quotes about Meaning

The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do not say.

Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose.

The point is this: If God does not exist, then life is objectively meaningless; but man cannot live consistently and happily knowing that life is meaningless; so in order to be happy he pretends life has meaning. But this is, of course, entirely inconsistent—for without God, man and the universe are without any real significance.

In the time of your life, live---so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for andy life your life touches.

I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.

I want time in which to walk quietly over the earth, among uncrazed men. I want time in which to build a house, inhabit it, create a past with meaning. I want time in which to seek and find love. I want time. I want to be unhurried, uncaught. I want time in which to sleep and waken, in which to dream the truth of my being on earth. Time.

How can you talk if you don't say anything? I said. You talk without words. We are always talking without words. Well, what good are words, then? Not very good, most of the time. Most of the time they're only good to keep back what you really want to say, or something you don't want known.

All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.

Factually and objectively, however, nothing is indifferent, neither in nature, nor in the state, nor in science and art. All things, even the most humble, have their specific place and meaning in the context of the whole. Human beings are indifferent only to what they do not, or do not sufficiently, know; they automatically assess and appreciate what they do know. God, who knows all things, is not indifferent to anything.

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?