Meaning Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Meaning

Meaning Quotes & Sayings

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Meaning can't change from person to person, and still be true — Denis Johnson

Freedom rests on finding the meaning and lessons even in our greatest pain. — Lee L Jampolsky

My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning. — Emma Cline

Most important pursuit in history: the search for meaning. — John Green

Just say up on the hill is the meaning of life and someone knew it and they wanted everyone else to enjoy it. So they put a red vinyl sofa up there. — Melina Marchetta

Everyone asks what the meaning of life is, but no one asks about the meaning of death. — Jo Nesbo

The meaning of life is that it ends. — Franz Kafka

Could you love someone so much that, even without meaning to, you hurt them? — Jodi Picoult

Life is not inherently meaningful. We make meaning happen through the attention and care we express through our actions. — Donna Farhi

Attraversiamo (meaning "Lets cross over" in Italian) — Elizabeth Gilbert

We are born for meaning, not pleasure, unless it is pleasure that is steeped in meaning. — Jacob Needleman

[I]ntrinsic value follows meaning follows form follows economics follows function follows more economics follows market research. — Erik Adigard

Heart connection brings meaning to life and spirit to body. — Amy Leigh Mercree

The most important thing to him is his drive, his purpose, his desire to give meaning to the experience of dying. — Philip Gould

A craft can only have meaning when it serves a spiritual way. — Titus Burckhardt

The real meaning of detached love is to let others exist without forcing our will upon them. That is spiritual love. — Harold Klemp

Their lives are what hold meaning. Dying is simple. Living for something is much harder. — Mark T. Barnes

You must live your story. — Michael Ende

She responded to Letty's well-meaning suggestions with the unblinking disdain perfected by cats in their dealings with their humans. — Lauren Willig

There isn't meaning if we give everything in replace for nothing! — Deyth Banger

Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'. — C.S. Lewis

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form. — T. S. Eliot

I consider it to be the meaning of my whole life and my obligation to serve my fatherland and our people. — Vladimir Putin

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. — Carl Jung

A person of character seeks true happiness in living a life of purpose and meaning, placing a higher value on significance than success. — Michael Josephson

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead. — Jeanette Winterson

Prosecutors tend to love conspiracy charges because the rules of evidence are easier, meaning you can get more in to help prove a crime. — David Shuster

The symbol is greater than visible substance ... Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care. — Freya Stark

The word amateur comes from the Latin root meaning "to love. — Steven Pressfield

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved. — Sigmund Freud

In the act of tearing something apart, you lose its meaning. — Malcolm Gladwell

I'm hallucinating meaning. — A.J. Compton

The real meaning of the word paranoia is
a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected. — John Coleman

You can hope for a miracle in your life, or you realize that your life is the miracle. — Robert Breault

I always hate saying 'goodbye. — Avijeet Das

The body always expresses the spirit whose envelope it is. And for him who can see, the nude offers the richest meaning. — Auguste Rodin

The real meaning of courage was the personal sacrifice of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King. — Pete Seeger

Life has meaning only if you do what is meaningful to you. — Alan Cohen

The wonderful things in life are the things you do, not the things you have. — Reinhold Messner

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Every muscular rigidity contains the history and the meaning of its origin. — Wilhelm Reich

Your life is not meant to be lived in a way to satisfy someone's expectation out of you! Live your life in your own way. — Avijeet Das

A statute is written to entrap meaning, a poem to escape it. — Hilary Mantel

The meaning is hidden in man, but it is only man himself who can find it. — Liv-Christine Hoem

To find meaning in the mystery of existence is life's final and fascinating challenge. — Huston Smith

Life no longer felt meaningless. It felt stressful and terrifying, but it definitely didn't feel meaningless. — Donald Miller

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn — Orson Welles

I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning. — Adam Driver

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow. — Rumi

Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything. — Tony Robbins

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning. — Jaggi Vasudev

With good health all the activities of life are greatly enhanced ... It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning. — Ezra Taft Benson

Make it simple, but significant. — Don Draper

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught? — Ada Cambridge

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning. — Wassily Kandinsky

Life is easier lived when lived for others. — Chris Matakas

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing. — Ronnie Barker

The original ancient Greek meaning of the word planet was simply wanderer, — Mike Brown

Touch is the meaning of being human. — Andrea Dworkin

Relationships keep us alive and our lives meaningful. — Bernie Siegel

Over time, though, we all face the truth that we can never find true meaning, true significance apart from God. — Justin Camp

When you are afraid of someone, they can gain power over you, meaning they can drop your energy level. — Frederick Lenz

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself. — Albert Camus

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people — Edgar Degas

A birthday:-and now a day that rose
With much of hope, with meaning rife-
A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
The middle day of human life. — Jean Ingelow

she was the kind of woman who couldn't live without meaning, powerful and real meaning, in her life. — Sierra Simone

Love must become a practical activity. It should be the meaning and the purpose of our lives — Sunday Adelaja

Because without the lows, the highs would
seem pointless. — A.P. Sweet

No man can fully understand the meaning of love unless he's owned by a dog. — Gene Hill

If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it. — Conor Oberst

I woke up, smiling to myself at this dream with its allegorical aspects but with no real meaning. — Jean De Berg

If language is not rectified, words do not correspond to meaning, and if words do not correspond to meaning, our deeds cannot be accomplished. — Confucius

Getting rid of the wrong understanding and attaining the right understanding is indeed bliss. — Dada Bhagwan

Acts are demanded, suicidal acts perhaps, but acts fraught with meaning. — Henry Miller

The meaning of a photo lies in the excitement and joy you feel when taking it. — Marie Kondo

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack. — Keith Olbermann

When you win, the rules change, and you find you've lost — David Mitchell

The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning. — Boris Pasternak

I want to read you every night. I want to take you to bed with me : your words, your thoughts, your mind, your body and your soul. — Avijeet Das

I have faith in all mankind. Well,not faith really, more like hopeful suspicion. And not "all" but 5 people. Mankind meaning computers. — Dane Cook

Regalverborgenheiten" word found in Gabriele Wohmann's short story "Die Feindin" meaning the comforting seclusion of being surrounded by book cases. — Gabriele Wohmann

Peace of mind is the meaning of life" -Talisa Santiago (Spirit Seeker) — Jamie-Leigh Haden

How long can I live with just safe and easy before my life becomes completely devoid of meaning? — Cora Carmack

Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives. — Dean Koontz

Life took on quite a special meaning in this early morning solitude. — Henning Mankell

The definition of 'Employment' by an employer, and, that by an employee, are seldom the same. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

God is freedom, God is truth
God is power and God is proof
God is fashion, God is fame
God gives meaning, God gives pain — Steven Wilson

If you want to possess things - money; if you want to possess yourself - meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning. — Rajneesh

Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe. — Carl Jung

His hidden meaning lies in our endeavors;
Our valors are our best gods. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thus for me, the principal meaning of being a Jew was something people reliably held against me, a barrier to overcome. — Scott Turow

For till the thunder and trumpet be,
Soul may divide from body, but not we
One from another — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Each being is sacred
meaning that each has inherent value that cannot be ranked in a hierarchy or compared to the value of another being. — Starhawk

When goals go, meaning goes. When meaning goes, purpose goes. When purpose goes, life goes dead on our hands. — Carl Jung

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning. — Scott McCloud

meaning 'four-oaring — Giles Kristian

The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it — Neale Donald Walsch

No verse of Scripture yields its meaning to lazy people. — Arthur W. Pink

You're the reason why I'm fighting here. You're the meaning of my life. And as long as you need me, I keep alive. — Hotaru Odagiri