#meaning

Telling someone about what a symbol means is like telling someone how music should make them feel. ↗

— Dan Brown

#simile #music

It seemed funny that one day I would go to bed in her arms and the next not feel anything, like a switch had gone off. But no, that wasn’t honest either. This had been building for a long time. Our silences were getting longer. Our arguments more frequent. How do you stay with someone when there are no dreams to build? No purpose to accomplish? No meaning? No meaning —that was the monster that drove us away from one another in the end. Always. ↗

— Steven L. Peck

#dreams #existence #existentialism #love #meaning

I have never learned to hate. Don't let my first lesson come from you. ↗

— Susan Carroll

#historical-fiction #meaningful #miri-cheney #powerful #susan-carroll

Tut, tut, child!" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#child

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea. ↗

— Guy Debord

#embraces #erases #expressions #false #his

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#nonsense #attention

What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me--that is what I understand. And these two certainties--my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle--I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope which I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my condition? ↗

— Albert Camus

#unity

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#frankl #meaning #viktor #behavior

Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#meaning

Lat at nigh have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were mean to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't pain, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#dream #dreams #meaning-of-life #meant-to-be #resistance