meaning Quotes

“Alice felt dreadfully puzzled. The Hatter's remark seemed to have no sort of meaning in it, and yet it was certainly English. 'I don't quite understand you,' she said, as politely as she could.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

topic:understanding meaning

“Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means”

― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself—that comes too late—a crop of unextinguishable regrets.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

topic:life meaning

“Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion.”

― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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“Men’s lives have meaning, not their deaths.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

topic:life death meaning

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

topic:courage meaning politics

“Maybe Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”

― Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

topic:meaning

“They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

topic:life meaning

“What you don’t understand you can make mean anything.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

topic:understanding meaning

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

topic:meaning language

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