Quotes about Meaning
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?
— Cormac McCarthy
Where you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.
— Cormac McCarthy
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.
— Cormac McCarthy
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.
— Cormac McCarthy
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.
— Cormac McCarthy
You live by what you thrill to, and there's the end of it.
— DH Lawrence
He had so very nearly lost his life, that what remained was wonderfully precious to him.
— DH Lawrence
Art-speech is the only truth.
— DH Lawrence
What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going.
— DH Lawrence
So long as you don't feel life's paltry, and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.
— DH Lawrence
The real joy of a book lies in reading it over and over again, and always finding it different, coming upon another meaning, another level of meaning.
— DH Lawrence
Your very flesh shall be a great poem...
— Walt Whitman