“ Make her smile, make her laugh and make her happy; because this is the only Truth, Meaning & Beauty act any human can ever achieve. Sameh Elsayed
“ Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh; "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yo… Lewis Carroll
“ If you're not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more... Germany Kent
“ To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives.… Oliver Sacks
“ I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is 'Disappear Here' and even though it’s probably a… Bret Easton Ellis
“ Life is a series of events and sensations. Everything else is interpretation. Much is lost in translation and added in assumption / projection Rasheed Ogunlaru
“ I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort. Kathy Acker
“ The reason my life has wandered to nowhere is likely due to the fact that the focus of the moment has dictated the destination of my life, when the destination of my life should have been dictating th… Craig D. Lounsbrough
“ We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear. Titus Lucretius Carus
“ Photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself… Rebecca McNutt
“ Our exertions generally find no enduring physical correlatives. We are diluted in gigantic intangible collective projects, which leave us wondering what we did last year and, more profoundly, where we… Alain de Botton
“ Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdrawal into a subjectivity which refused existence to any reality or law but its own. During these postw… Paul Bowles
“ If this constant sliding and hiding of meaning were true of conscious life, then we would of course never be able to speak coherently at all. If the whole of language were present to me when I spoke,… Terry Eagleton
“ Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death. Donna Lynn Hope
“ A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeli… John Steinbeck
“ Certain American uses of deconstruction, Derrida has observed, work to ensure ‘an institutional closure’ which serves the dominant political and economic interests of American society. Derrida is clea… Terry Eagleton
“ Empiricism assumes that objects can be understood independendy of observing subjects. Truth is therefore assumed to lie in a world external to the observer whose job is to record and faithfully reflec… David Harvey
“ Saint John, in a moment of confusion, tells us not to love the world because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,is not of the Father, but… Alberto Manguel
“ She [Beatrice] alone was still real for him, still implied meaning in the world, and beauty. Her nature became his landmark - what Melville would call, with more sobriety than we can now muster, his G… Dan Simmons
“ Lightness and weightiness are both linked to a philosophy of life. They are choices in life. Heaviness can be the embodiment of a sense of responsibility, the expression of maturity, the result of pro… Erik Pevernagie