Meaning Quotes

"The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. Hence, unforgettable moments, coincidental things, and unparalleled people." "What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it" "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." "The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death" "There is no outside-text" "Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them." "The things that we love tell us what we are." "The name of the rose is a mere symptom of our nostalgia for a time when names meant something." "Time is how you spend your love" "You never know that the things you’re doing are that meaningful to society." "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." "I wanted kicks—the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I found in movies—but more than that, I wanted a sense of purpose." "Without football, my life is worth nothing." "You can only offend me if you mean something to me" "All language is but a poor translation" "All art is autobiographical; all meaning is linguistic; all narratives are ideoplastic." "Life is but a story, and we are the storytellers, each with our own part to play" "What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person." "Everything has been figured out, except how to live." "Saying nothing sometimes says the most"