I was suffering from a peculiar and persistent sense that I was being pursued, and also the conviction that under the political order of the times, our lives had no meaning.
Naguib Mahfouz

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.
John Dewey

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.
Sarah Silverman

Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.
Bono

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.
Henry Rollins

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.
Bhumibol Adulyadej

Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
Eric Gill

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
Willard Van Orman Quine

Meaning, however, is no great matter.
C. S. Calverley

Purpose is what gives life a meaning.
Charles Henry Parkhurst

What is the meaning of the togetherness of the perceiving mind, in that peculiar modification of perceiving which makes it perceive not a star but a tree, and the tree itself, is a problem for philosophy.
Samuel Alexander

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me.
Jim Hodges

Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.
Gordon Getty

Everything has a meaning, if only we could read it.
Philip Pullman

The meaning of life... I think the meaning of life is, I think it's love.
Julie Benz

In love, we worry more about the meaning of silences than the meaning of words.
Mason Cooley

Man lives in a world of meaning.
George H. Mead

You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Barbara Sher

I had just arrived in New York from California. I was nineteen years old and excited beyond belief. I was an art student and an acting student and behaved as most young actors did - meaning that there was no such thing as a good actor, 'cause you yourself hadn't shown up yet.
Robert Redford