Quotes about Meaning

It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'

People have been told so often that resurrection is just a metaphor, and means Jesus died and was glorified - in other words, he went to Heaven, whatever that means. And they've never realized that the word 'resurrection' simply didn't mean that.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

The road to the sacred leads through the secular.

The object of faith always determines its quality and worth.

If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

Words become low by the occasions to which they are applied, or the general character of them who use them; and the disgust which they produce arises from the revival of those images with which they are commonly united.