Quotes about Meaning

When one is at the end of one's life, to die means to go away; when one is at the beginning of it, to go away means to die.

Monsieur Mayor," said the bishop, "that is just it. I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able to believe it. I don't believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.

I have no mission. No one has.

Love is a continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.

Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a position to make any judgment about it? Certainly not. For how can a person with no knowledge of the future understand the meaning of the present? If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?

Ä°nsan hiçbir ÅŸeyi, hiçbir kimseyi ciddiye alamay?nca yaÅŸamak ne kadar da hüzün verici!

It was only an idea, a sudden flash, but it kept coming back to me, and I couldn't help thinking, why am I alive, what good is there in going on, but it's not true really, I didn't think anything of the sort, I was hardly thinking at all, I just imagined myself no longer alive and suddenly I felt such bliss, such strange bliss that I wanted to laugh and maybe really did begin to laugh.

all languages that derive from Latin form the word compassion by combining the prefix meaning with (com-) and the root meaning suffering

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

If we only have one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.