“Because when words are written with feelings and the soul, they do not forget that their destination is the ocean of a text, and that sooner or later they have to arrive there.”— Paulo Coelho, paulocoelhoblog.com
“The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“A lot of people who are artists don’t understand it themselves. Especially the young ones. They feel different, but they don’t know what it is. They feel more. Everything hurts. Everything. They’re super sensitive. They see things that other people don’t see.”— Rick Rubin, esquire.com
“Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess it always will. But I love it just the same.”— E. B. White, en.wikiquote.org
“Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else.”— E. B. White, fiction.eserver.org
“A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. The city is like poetry: it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.”— E. B. White, amazon.com
“Love means something different when all you want from someone is for them to stay.”— Joanna Hoffman, youtube.com
“If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and return.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant.”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”— Albert Einstein, goodreads.com
“One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.”— Jose Saramago, amazon.com
“We don’t exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. H…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself.”— Glenn Hughes, guitarworld.com
“The search for something permanent is one of the deepest of the instincts leading men to philosophy.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com