Quotes About Purpose

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

Nothing more to pursue, except the pursuit of nothing.

To look for a meaning in anything is less the act of a naif than of a masochist.

Animal banished from life, man's condition is tragic, for he no longer finds fulfillment in life's simple values. For animals, life is all there is; for man, life is a question mark. An irreversible question mark, for man has never found, nor will ever find, any answers. Life not only has no meaning; it can never have one.

Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par là même disparaît.

I've never practiced a profession and have lived like a sort of student. I consider this my greatest success, my life hasn't been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.

If the waves were to start thinking, they would believe that they are moving forward, that they have a purpose, that they are working for the good of the sea, and they wouldn't fail to work out a philosophy as inane as their zeal.

When you meditate all day on the inopportuneness of birth, everything you plan and everything you perform seems pathetic, futile. You are like a madman who, cured, does nothing but think of the crisis from which he has emerged, the "dream" he has left behind; he keeps harking back to it, so that his cure is of no benefit to him whatever.

Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the "meaning" of life.

One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.

If there was a common, even official form of killing oneself, suicide would be much easier and much more frequent. But since to be done with it all we must find our own way, we waste so much time meditating on trifles that we forget what is essential.

A voi s? tr?ieÅŸti ca o plant?, s? creÅŸti înr?d?cinat, înflorind ÅŸi uscîndu-te sub soare, în cea mai deplin? inconÅŸtien??, a dori s? fii o parte intim? din fecunditatea p?mîntului, o expresie anonim? a cursului vieÅ£ii este a fi disperat de rosturile ÅŸi sensul omenirii. Åži de ce s? nu schimb cu o floare?

Niciodat? n-am vrut s? tr?iesc f?r? s? vreau s? mor. Mai încleÅŸtat în ce sunt : în via?? sau în moarte?

Trei diminea?a. Simt secunda de fa??, apoi pe cealalt?, fac bilan?ul fiec?rui minut. De ce toate astea? Pentru c? m-am n?scut.

Tot secretul vieÈ›ii se reduce la atât: ea n-are nici un rost; fiecare din noi g?seÈ™te îns? unul.

I have never had a goal, I have sought out no result. I think that there cannot be, in general just as well as for ourselves, neither goal nor result. Everything isn't without meaning - the word slightly puts me off- but without necessity.

Universul este o cenu?? în prefacere al c?rei rost nu-l înÅ£elege nimeni.

PoÈ›i spune uÈ™or c? universul n-are nici un rost. Nimeni nu se va sup?ra. Dar afirm? acelaÈ™i lucru despre un individ oarecare; el va protesta È™i va lua chiar m?suri spre a te sancÈ›iona. AÈ™a suntem cu toÈ›ii: ne scoatem din cauz? când e vorbe de un principiu general È™i nu ne e ruÈ™ine s? ne izol?m într-o excepÈ›ie.

Je sais que ma naissance est un hasard, un accident risible, et cependant, dès que Je m'oublie, Je me comporte comme si elle était un évènement capital, indispensable à la marche et à l'équilibre du monde

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Ce faceti de dimineata pana seara? Ma indur.

As long as there a single god standing, mankind's work isn't finished.