Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure.
Henri Nouwen

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.
Henri Matisse

The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darkness.
Nikos Kazantzakis

Everything in this world has a hidden meaning.
Nikos Kazantzakis

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
Bobby Bowden

The sea has neither meaning nor pity.
Anton Chekhov

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound

Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.
Salman Rushdie

I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.
Randy Harrison

I don't know for Justin; he's always looking for meaning out of his relationships with people. I don't think he's as trapped into the drug thing as a lot of the others are.
Randy Harrison

Life has meaning only in the struggle. Triumph or defeat is in the hands of the Gods. So let us celebrate the struggle!
Stevie Wonder

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.
Hermann Hesse

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.
Hermann Hesse

To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.
Hermann Hesse

Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
Stephen Sondheim

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning.
Jurgen Habermas

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick

Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.
William Ames

Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward.
Morrie Schwartz

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.
Margaret Atwood