--- title: "12 Meaning Experience Quotes by 12 authors" description: "Browse 12 Meaning Experience quotes by 12 authors. Discover the best Meaning Experience sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c1/sohrab-vossoughi-80632_desire_mass-market-desire-is-about-meaning-and_828448.png" --- > [Mass market desire is about meaning and experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sohrab-vossoughi/mass-market-desire-is-about-meaning-and-experience/) Sohrab Vossoughi [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c1/sohrab-vossoughi-80632_desire_mass-market-desire-is-about-meaning-and_828448.png) > [“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flannery-o-connor/for-the-fiction-writer-himself-the-whole-story-is-the-meaning-because/) [Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flannery-o-connor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63f/flannery-o-connor-639_fiction_for-the-fiction-writer-himself-the-whole_26842.png) > [I believe our lives are important when we learn something and love. I really want to capture the meaning of experience.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/iris-smyles/i-believe-our-lives-are-important-when-we-learn-something-and-love-i/) [Iris Smyles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/iris-smyles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aad/iris-smyles-52028_believe_i-believe-our-lives-are-important-when-w_837626.jpg) > [Language is capable of becoming the objective repository of vast accumulations of meaning and experience, which it can then preserve in time…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-l-berger/language-is-capable-of-becoming-the-objective-repository-of-vast/) [Peter L. Berger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-l-berger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d2c/peter-l-berger-8474_accumulation_language-is-capable-of-becoming-the-obje_724030.png) > [The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marshall-mcluhan/the-meaning-of-experience-is-typically-one-generation-behind-the/) [Marshall McLuhan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marshall-mcluhan/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddb/marshall-mcluhan-641_behinds_the-meaning-of-experience-is-typically-o_1974268.png) > [Now that I have all the things I once thought would make me happy, they have little meaning for me. Experience, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oprah-winfrey/now-that-i-have-all-the-things-i-once-thought-would-make-me-happy/) [Oprah Winfrey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oprah-winfrey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fb/oprah-winfrey-186_convenience_now-that-i-have-all-the-things-i-once-th_950204.png) > [Meaning is something we experience more than we attain. It's like finding a nice, easy current in a river that carries you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/donald-miller/meaning-is-something-we-experience-more-than-we-attain-it-s-like/) [Donald Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/donald-miller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/670/donald-miller-607_currents_meaning-is-something-we-experience-more_377847.png) > [It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-foster-wallace/it-means-being-conscious-and-aware-enough-to-choose-what-you-pay/) [David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-foster-wallace/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/be3/david-foster-wallace-161_attention_it-means-being-conscious-and-aware-enoug_90332.jpg) > [“Meditation is not really something that you define. It is something that you practice on a regular basis, and the only way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-rowland/meditation-is-not-really-something-that-you-define-it-is-something/) [Sarah Rowland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-rowland/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc9/sarah-rowland-27283_meditation_meditation-is-not-really-something-that_397907.jpg) > [“Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it. We don't want to read a book or see a museum show…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-crichton/unaccustomed-to-direct-experience-we-can-come-to-fear-it-we-don-t/) [Michael Crichton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-crichton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7d6/michael-crichton-694_books_unaccustomed-to-direct-experience-we-can_2636102.jpg) > [“I want to understand the world from your point of view. I want to know what you know in the way you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-p-spradley/i-want-to-understand-the-world-from-your-point-of-view-i-want-to-know/) James P. Spradley [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d1e/james-p-spradley-245614_ethnography_i-want-to-understand-the-world-from-your_2017486.jpg) > [“Some situations can never be explained. You will only receive the true meaning of them through experience.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/some-situations-can-never-be-explained-you-will-only-receive-the-true/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16b/anonymous-1_quote_some-situations-can-never-be-explained-y_1545573.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/meaning-experience/#itemlist", "name": "Meaning Experience Quotes", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Mass market desire is about meaning and experience.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Sohrab Vossoughi" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sohrab-vossoughi/mass-market-desire-is-about-meaning-and-experience/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c1/sohrab-vossoughi-80632_desire_mass-market-desire-is-about-meaning-and_828448.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c1/sohrab-vossoughi-80632_desire_mass-market-desire-is-about-meaning-and_828448.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c1/sohrab-vossoughi-80632_desire_mass-market-desire-is-about-meaning-and_828448.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Mass market desire is about meaning and experience.” — Sohrab Vossoughi", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Flannery O'Connor" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flannery-o-connor/for-the-fiction-writer-himself-the-whole-story-is-the-meaning-because/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63f/flannery-o-connor-639_fiction_for-the-fiction-writer-himself-the-whole_26842.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63f/flannery-o-connor-639_fiction_for-the-fiction-writer-himself-the-whole_26842.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/63f/flannery-o-connor-639_fiction_for-the-fiction-writer-himself-the-whole_26842.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an…” — Flannery O'Connor", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I believe our lives are important when we learn something and love. 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