Quotes about Meaning

That is beautiful mysticism, it is a—" "Please not to call it by any name," said Dorothea, putting out her hands entreatingly. "You will say it is Persian, or something geographical. It is my life. I have found it out and cannot part with it.

Perhaps I feel about you as the artist does about the scene over which his soul has brooded with love: he would tremble to see it confided to other hands; he would never believe that it could bear for another all the meaning and the beauty it bears for him.

Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning.

our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.

so much that seems to me a consecration of ugliness rather than beauty.

I used to think I could never bear life if it kept on being the same every day, and I must always be doing things of no consequence and never know anything greater.

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

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.