meaning Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about meaning.
“When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.”
- Virginia Woolf
“The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us.”
- Jane Roberts
“American society will never completely understand the true meaning of equality.”
- Bryant H. McGill
“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.”
- Vaclav Havel
“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.”
- Huey Newton
“He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.”
- Bobby Bowden
“Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.”
- Andrei Platonov
“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
- Carl Jung
“Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.”
- Stephen Sondheim