To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by... →
Anais Nin
Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.
Timothy Noah
The term 'genre' eventually becomes pejorative because you're referring to something that's so codified and ritualised that it ceases... →
Christopher Nolan
Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.
Gale Norton
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Novalis
If there's a song that stops meaning anything to me, then I'll quit playing it.
Conor Oberst
I don't think that word - the word pirate - has any real meaning. Or it's something that's had meaning imposed on it.
Will Oldham
If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
Aristotle Onassis
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from... →
Alice Oswald