--- title: "1 Searching Meaning Quotes By Kij Johnson" description: "1 Searching Meaning quotes by Kij Johnson. Plus more from Kij Johnson and more Searching Meaning sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/517/kij-johnson-19953_nature_we-ascribe-meanings-because-it-is-our-na_2052960.jpg" --- > [We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/we-ascribe-meanings-because-it-is-our-nature-to-do-so-we-can-no-more/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/517/kij-johnson-19953_nature_we-ascribe-meanings-because-it-is-our-na_2052960.jpg) ## More by Kij Johnson > [“Humans assign words to things and pretend the words are adequate.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/humans-assign-words-to-things-and-pretend-the-words-are-adequate/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) > [“The soul often hangs in a balance of some sort. Tonight do I lie down in the high fields with Dirk Tanner or not?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/the-soul-often-hangs-in-a-balance-of-some-sort-tonight-do-i-lie-down/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) > [“in the end she had not wanted a life spent treading water in his story. She still did not—and yet she regarded herself in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/in-the-end-she-had-not-wanted-a-life-spent-treading-water-in-his/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) > [Waiting required a future to wait for: a falsehood. I know now that there is only now. I remember things that happened months (or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/waiting-required-a-future-to-wait-for-a-falsehood-i-know-now-that/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) > [“There was for everything a possibility, an invisible pattern that could be made manifest given work and the right materials.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/there-was-for-everything-a-possibility-an-invisible-pattern-that/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) > [Happiness is the pleasantest of emotions; because of this, it is the most dangerous. Having once felt happiness, one will do anything to maintain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/happiness-is-the-pleasantest-of-emotions-because-of-this-it-is-the/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) > [“She would never have a day that she did not see something and hear a voice in her mind say, “Remember this and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/she-would-never-have-a-day-that-she-did-not-see-something-and-hear-a/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) > [“There would be sadness and nightmares. And there would be lovemaking and the holding close of children and friends and dogs -- affirmations of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/there-would-be-sadness-and-nightmares-and-there-would-be-lovemaking/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) > [“As a young woman, when she had been beautiful and had worn her hair short and her clothes loose to conceal that fact, she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/as-a-young-woman-when-she-had-been-beautiful-and-had-worn-her-hair/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) > [“Love and memory and thought and dream ~ My favorite poems have never been written in words.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/love-and-memory-and-thought-and-dream-my-favorite-poems-have-never/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) > [“He loved who he was: Randolph Carter, master dreamer, adventurer. To him, she had been landscape, an articulate crag he could ascend, a face…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/he-loved-who-he-was-randolph-carter-master-dreamer-adventurer-to-him/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) > [Because if something does go wrong, you'll need what you're feeling to matter, to someone somewhere, anyway.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/because-if-something-does-go-wrong-you-ll-need-what-you-re-feeling-to/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) > [“That night and for years afterward, she had envisioned another dream land, built from the imaginings of powerful women dreamers. Perhaps it would have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/that-night-and-for-years-afterward-she-had-envisioned-another-dream/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) > [“That's not a goal," Kit said. "Why? Because it's not yours? Which is better, Kit Meinem of Atyar? A single great victory, or a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/that-s-not-a-goal-kit-said-why-because-it-s-not-yours-which-is-better/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) > [“This is the gift of humanity: that it is claimed by the self. None of us...are human unless and until we claim it for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/this-is-the-gift-of-humanity-that-it-is-claimed-by-the-self-none-of/) [Kij Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kij-johnson/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/searching-meaning/kij-johnson/#itemlist", "name": "1 Searching Meaning Quotes By Kij Johnson", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kij Johnson" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kij-johnson/we-ascribe-meanings-because-it-is-our-nature-to-do-so-we-can-no-more/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/517/kij-johnson-19953_nature_we-ascribe-meanings-because-it-is-our-na_2052960.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/517/kij-johnson-19953_nature_we-ascribe-meanings-because-it-is-our-na_2052960.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/517/kij-johnson-19953_nature_we-ascribe-meanings-because-it-is-our-na_2052960.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a…” — Kij Johnson", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "CollectionPage", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/searching-meaning/kij-johnson/#webpage", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/searching-meaning/kij-johnson/", "name": "Searching Meaning Quotes by Kij Johnson", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website" }, "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/searching-meaning/kij-johnson/#itemlist" }, "primaryImageOfPage": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/517/kij-johnson-19953_nature_we-ascribe-meanings-because-it-is-our-na_2052960.jpg" }, "description": "1 Searching Meaning quotes by Kij Johnson. 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