Quotes about Meaning

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

This night, thy soul may be required of thee.

I dont 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.

Lumea nu are nici un nume. Numele de cerros, sierras si deserturi exista numai pe harti. Le punem nume ca sa nu ne ratacim. Dar am inventat aceste nume tocmai pentru ca am ratacit deja drumul. Lumea nu se poate pierde. Noi ne pierdem. Si tocmai pentru ca noi am pus numele acestea si am numit aceste coordonate, numele lor nu ne poate salva. Nu pot regasi drumul in locul nostru.

Perhaps they had come to warn him. But of what? That he couldn't enkindle in the boy's heart what was ashes in his own?

Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.

Things separate from their stories have no meaning. They are only shapes of a certain size and color. A certain weight. When their meaning has become lost to us they no longer have even a name.

The rage of children seemed inexplicable other than as a breach of some deep and innate covenant having to do with how the world should be and wasnt.

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.

You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.

He had so very nearly lost his life, that what remained was wonderfully precious to him.

Art-speech is the only truth.