Top 1200 Symbolic Meaning Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I'm always embarrassed when I'm asked about meaning, because it is what you make it. The meaning is yours, so it's not about what I think. It's for us all to reflect and change perspectives.

My interest is in how meaning is communicated via language, and I believe the shape, positioning, even the color of the language has an effect on meaning.

Sometimes the best course in the search for the meaning of life is to busy yourself until you forget that you don't know the meaning of life

I think things can have more than one meaning and still connect with people. There's a lot of meaning to the title 'Music For People' and they're all true and they're all accurate.

I'm so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

Source truth exists in greater abundance outside of the symbolic system of words.

Life, it seems, is not meaningless but, rather, so full of meaning that its meaning must be constantly murdered for the sake of cohesion and comprehension. For the sake of the storyline.

A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.

People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.

We go to the mountain for enlightenment, for self-realization, for adventure, for discovery. It's pregnant with meaning. When people see a mountain, they invest it with meaning. Not plot. Not character.

I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.

As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera.

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.

The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.

Looking for the meaning of life, one man can discover the order of the universe. To discover the truth, to achieve. a higher spiritual state, that is the true meaning of ninja.

No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's nowhere I can't find meaning.

I love that people are still obsessively trying to understand and decode 'The Shining.' People want to find meaning in things that seemingly don't have meaning on the surface.

The power of nature exists in its silence. Human words cannot encode the meaning because human language has access only to the shadow of meaning.

That's the way life is: meaning is always there, but there is no clearly given way of decoding it. Conventional cinema obscures this with an easy reduction of meaning to plot and schematic characters.

Before you come alive, life is nothing; it 's up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing else but the meaning that you choose.

People have the idea that an image must stand for something else, that the real meaning needs to be described with language. Instead it is the image itself that is the meaning.

It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning

If I had to find one characteristic that is most symbolic of me, I think I am tenacious.

Marriage is absolutely something that's important to me. It's the ultimate symbolic step in love.

A merely symbolic religion does not threaten the ruling regime of materialistic science.

It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.

Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning.

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.

'Hellraiser' was what 'Hellraiser' was. It was a $900k movie, and there wasn't anything I would have done differently. But 'Nightbreed' was taken away from me. It was thought that its meaning wasn't... Its meaning didn't chime with the producers.

When I worked with wildlife a lot in the Eighties and Nineties, I learnt the meaning of patience. And when I worked with trees, I learned the meaning of humility.

In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.

Every real nation is a people of a common blood and descended from the same ancestors. A nation - from the Latin word meaning to be born - can have no other meaning.

Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter.

I can not 'make my mark' for all time - those concepts are mutually exclusive. 'Lasting effect' is a self-contradictory term. Meaning does not exist in the future and neither do I. Nothing will have meaning 'ultimately.' Nothing will even mean tomorrow what it did today. Meaning changes with the context. My meaningfulness is here. It is enough that I am of value to someone today. It is enough that I make a difference now.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

To try to convey literally what the Garden of Eden was like is meaningless. What matters is its symbolic function.

Can it be of less consequence that the meaning of a Constitution should be fixed and known, than a meaning of a law should be so?

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

The endowment and sealing ordinances of the temple are so gloriously rich in meaning that you will want to allow significant time to receive those ordinances and to ponder their meaning.

My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

People's most prized possessions carry deeply symbolic and emotional significance.

I think of a monument as being symbolic and for the people and therefore rhetorical, not honest, not personal.

Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in the symbolic nature of my work.

I believe very deeply that this beauty I call the soul is not a random occurrence. I don't know what its meaning is at some larger level, but I know that it has meaning.

The German birthrate is below replacement levels, meaning the population is shrinking, meaning fewer and fewer people of age to join the labor force.

Every holiday has unique fare and symbolic foods, but none as much as Rosh Hashana.

I have to have a meaning in my life. If I roam around without some meaning in my life, I'm in deep and serious trouble. I can't, I just can't exist.

Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.

The meaning of everything is the meaning I give it

Im so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.

If life only has the meaning you bring to it, we have the opportunity to bring rich meaning to our lives by the service we do for others.

That's the beauty and the terror of being human beings: We just have these symbolic languages, these dreams, and that's all it ever is.

Elvis is symbolic of a lot of things, dreams coming true being one of them.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

Every myth is psychologically symbolic. Its narratives and images are to be read, therefore, not literally, but as metaphors.

For a large class of cases - though not for all - in which we employ the word meaning it can be explained thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.

The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters - the core - is left.