Lost Meaning Quotes

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

If the lost word is lost, if the spent word is spent If the unheard, unspoken Word is unspoken, unheard; Still is the spoken word, the Word unheard, The Word without a word, the Word within The world and for the world; And the light shone in the darkness and Against the Word the unstilled world still whirled About the center of the silent Word. Oh my people, what have I done unto thee. Where shall the word be found, where shall the word Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence

It all meant something. Until it didn't.

This is my life now. Absurd, but unpredictable. Not absurd because unpredictable but unpredictable because absurd. If I have lost the meaning of my life, I might still find small treasured things among the spilled and pilfered trash.

He was our symbol of baseball at a time when the game meant something to us that perhaps it no longer does.

Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?

A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it.

There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything out, and it's more important how it sounds. And applying that to more formal aspects of writing.

The text has disappeared under the interpretation.

The Americans have many virtues, but they have not Faith and Hope. I know no two words whose meaning is more lost sight of.

When we have found all the mysteries and lost all the meaning, we will be alone, on an empty shore.

The word 'commitment' has lost it's meaning. I'm old enough to remember when it used to be positive. A commited person was someone to be admired. He was loyal and steady. Now a commitment is something you avoid. You don't want to tie yourself down.

The minute our correspondence becomes obligatory, there's no point in keeping touch at all.

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

The idea of inclusion has become kind of a stone that we've passed our hand over so many times that it doesn't mean anything.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

Words slip, slide and sometimes crack.

Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

I believe 'love' is very nice to hear, but it's used so much that it's come to a point where it's almost meaningless.

Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating your life to it, and it spirited you away into fairylands where you were, and looked, frankly absurd.