Meaning Quotes

"What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead." "Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy." "Words are like leaves and where they most abound much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found" "To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of that which is chosen." "One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life." "Life has no meaning a priori. It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose." "Fall in love with some activity and do it Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter" "Life is either a great adventure or nothing." "Purpose is the reason you journey, passion is the fire that lights your way" "Legacy is the mortar of life." "The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers" "Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree." "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."