Quotes About Meaning

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world. She was the book thief without the words. Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.

Markus Zusak

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Zora Neale Hurston

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Italo Calvino

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Rick Riordan

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Marilyn Monroe

If a patient [should ask] Frankl, What is the meaning of life for me? he is likely to get a Socratic answer: What is the best chess move?

Aaron Ungersma

The fish trap exists because of the fish: once you've gotten the fish, you can forget the trap.... Words exist because of meanings: once you've gotten the meanings, you can forget the words.

Chuang-tzu

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Haruki Murakami

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words...As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are [the] meaning.