Quotes about Meaning
Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.
— Victor Hugo
If no one loved, the sun would go out.
— Victor Hugo
Could the word 'iron' be the root from which 'irony' is derived?
— Victor Hugo
Nihilism has no point. There is no such thing as nothingness. Zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing. Man
— Victor Hugo
Friend' is sometimes a word devoid of meaning; enemy, never.
— Victor Hugo
There is, as we know, a philosophy which denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, pathologically classified, which denies the sun; this philosophy is called blindness.
— Victor Hugo
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.
— Victor Hugo
Monsieur Mayor," said the bishop, "that is just it. I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.
— Victor Hugo
If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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.
— LM Montgomery
I have no mission. No one has.
— Milan Kundera
Love is a continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.
— Milan Kundera