Quotes about Meaning

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

How clever are you, my dear! You never mean a single word you say!

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

The supreme vice is shallowness.

Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.

I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

He'd half meant to speak but those eyes had altered the world forever in the space of a heartbeat.

Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.

Don't take in no strangers while I'm gone. She sighed deeply. They ain't a soul in this world but what is a stranger to me, she said.

And it may even be that in the end all problems are spiritual problems.