“When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.”
Edward Gorey (1925–2000) American writer, artist, and illustrator
Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
Source: The Shoemaker's Wife
“When people are finding meaning in things -- beware.”
Edward Gorey (1925–2000) American writer, artist, and illustrator
Source: Ascending Peculiarity: Edward Gorey on Edward Gorey
“Everything means nothing—that is the only truth.”
Michael Moorcock (1939) English writer, editor, critic
Source: Short fiction, To Rescue Tanelorn... (1962), p. 472
“The world is nothing but 'world-as-meaning.”
Maurice Merleau-Ponty book Phenomenology of Perception
Source: Phenomenology of Perception (1945), p. xi
“Terrorism': the word that means nothing, yet justifies everything.”
Glenn Greenwald (1967) American journalist, lawyer and writer
“Beware of those who weep with realization, for they have realized nothing.”
Carlos Castaneda (1925–1998) Peruvian-American author
Source: Fire from Within
Patrick Süskind (1949) German writer and screenwriter
Source: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer