Quotes about Meaning

People need such stories, because however dark, a darkness with voices in it is better than a silent void.

If there were no emptiness, there would be no life.

but they mean well, I remind myself. Is that ever a convincing excuse when there's blood on the carpet?

I love you. You're the only one. She isn't the first woman he's ever said that to. He shouldn't have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn't have treated it like a tool, a wedge, a key to open women. By the time he got around to meaning it, the words had sounded fraudulent to him and he'd been ashamed to pronounce them.

A return to traditional values. Waste not want not. I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be dead," you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul — it was a consequence of grammar.

I will say you ... You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear me. But its no good, because I know you can't.

Poems are made of words. They aren't boxes. They aren't houses. Nobody is in them, really.

When thanksgiving is filled with true meaning and is not just the formality of a polite 'thank you,' it is the recognition of dependence.

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.

I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to! I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!