“Temple, who was driving, suddenly faltered and wept. “I’ve read that libraries are where immortality lies. . . . I don’t want my thoughts to die with me. . . . I want to have done something. . . . I’m not interested in power, or piles of money. I want to leave something behind. I want to make a posi…”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“My father one told me that the very word "paradise" meant garden, spelling out for me the four letters (pe resh dalet samech) of pardes, the Hebrew word for garden.”— Oliver Sacks, amazon.com
“I liked the idea that a piece of information is really defined only by what it's related to, and how it's related. There really is little else to meaning. The structure is everything.”— Tim Berners-Lee, amazon.com
“Because, if you let it be about you, then you're screwed, you know? So you have to stay separate from what's happening and you have to be somewhere else. But I don't know where that somewhere else is, you know? Or how to do that.”— Gia Carangi, astropunkk.tumblr.com
“There are two ways to think about all this. One way is that life is absurd to start with and that only a mad man goes out and tries to change the world, to fight for good and against evil. The other way is that life is indeed absurd to start with and that it can be given meaning only if you live it…”— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com
“For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone that you can’t get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch you feel it everywhere. You never want to come up for air. Trust me, when you find the right person for a kiss, it’s everything.”— Alex Karev, imdb.com
“I was attending the American Society of Animal Science meetings when the flood occurred. I first learned about it when I read about it on the front page of USA Today, a national newspaper. I grieved for the "dead" books, the same way most people grieve for a dead relative. The destruction of books u…”— Temple Grandin, en.wikiquote.org
“I get you, you don’t know how you feel. well, I will tell you this: the world doesn’t make much sense without the people you love.”— R. M. Drake, twitter.com
“What is art really? The outcome of dissatisfaction with life, the point of impact for the creative force, the continual movement of life.. ..in my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself.”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ..my art gives meaning to my life.”— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org
“Suppose I want to paint a woman's body: first of all I imbue it with grace and charm, but I know that I must give something more. I will condense the meaning of this body by seeking its essential lines. The charm will be less apparent at first glance, but it must eventually emerge from the new image…”— Henri Matisse, amazon.com
“Procreation is not the only meaning of life, for then life in itself would become meaningless, and something which in itself is meaningless cannot be rendered meaningful merely by its perpetuation.”— Viktor Frankl, amazon.com
“What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms?”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.org
“The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a meaning and each of us is unique.”— David Byrne, goodreads.com
“Simplicity is a kind of transparency in which subtle nuances can have outsize effects. When everything is visible and appears to be dumb, that’s when the details take on larger meanings.”— David Byrne, amazon.com
“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that’s not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com