Meaning Quotes

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.

Man can only find meaning for his existence in something outside himself.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Her words are effortless in terms of their meaning and how she inhabits them.

All heaven is interested in the cross of Christ, all hell terribly afraid of it, while men are the only beings who more or less ignore its meaning.

Education does not mean the imparting of verbal knowledge alone.

My generation is filled with lovers who will never know the true meaning of love.

The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.