The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. Votes: 1
Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty. Votes: 1
Like many works of literature, Hollywood chooses for its villains people who strive for social dominance through the pursuit of wealth, prestige, and power. But the ordinary business of capitalism is much more egalitarian: It's about finding meaning and enjoyment in work and production. Votes: 1
Well, there's just some universal truths in a way that I've just observed to be true. You read Voltaire. You read modern literature. Anywhere you go, there's these observations about romantic love and what it does people, and these rotten feelings that rarely are people meaning to do that to each other. Votes: 1
Literature is language charged with meaning Votes: 0
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. Votes: 0
I think it is an important question of our lives - what is the meaning of literature to us as humans. Votes: 0
No work of literature is the product of only one or two conscious ideas. A story is mysteriously dense of meaning. Votes: 0
Literature is the history of the soul. Votes: 5 Barry Hannah
Meaning is not in things but in between them. Votes: 4 Norman O. Brown