“ So we live; a spirit that broods and hovers over the continual death of time, the lost meaning, the unrecaptured moment, the unremembered face, until the final chop that ends all our moments and plung… Iris Murdoch
“ Religion, mysticism and magic all spring from the same basic 'feeling' about the universe: a sudden feeling of meaning, which human beings sometimes 'pick up' accidentally, as your radio might pick up… Colin Wilson
“ O Me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless—of cities fill’d with the foolish; Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and… Walt Whitman
“ Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives. Terry Tempest Williams
“ Do you know why books such as this are so important? They have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me, it means texture. This book has pores. It has features. This book can go under the m… Ray Bradbury
“ I know the true meaning of getting by by the skin of my teeth; I do. It doesn't matter whether you've got money or you haven't, whether you're famous or not. This is the case for all women, actually;… Kate Winslet
“ Most social acts have to be understood in their setting and lose meaning if isolated... No error in thinking about social facts is more serious than the failure to see their place and function. Solomon Asch
“ Death makes life precious. Without it nothing would mean anything. Imagine a society without death Jarred Cole
“ Reiterating other people's hopes, dreams and fears. That's what politics is all about. Antonio G. Kowatsch
“ Nothing would have meaning, because the knowing was itself the meaning; beyond that there was nothing to know. Paul Bowles
“ Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning. Maya Angelou
“ Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in… Milan Kundera
“ Better than a thousand sayings Made up of useless wordsIs one word of meaning Which calms you to hear it. Anonymous
“ Arthur was frequently baffled by the complacency with which people went on with what they insouciantly called their lives, as if both the word and the thing made perfect sense to them. Julian Barnes
“ I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement and phr… Margaret Atwood
“ Ever felt like you are more than flesh and bones and blood that decay back into cosmic dirt? You are. Your existence did not begin with your birth and it will not end with your death. Your soul lived… Toni Sorenson
“ He came to find her, wanting what everyone wanted, and what only free-thinking people, not the supernatural, could give. Meaning. Ian Mcewan
