Quotes About Purpose

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.

We're on a mission from Glod.

Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like 'What is my purpose in life?' very quickly lacked both.

It was amazing how many people spent their whole lives in places where they never intended to stay.

You can die for your country or your people or your family, but for a god you should live fully and busily, every day of a long life.

Magrat wondered what it was like, spending your whole life doing something you didn't want to do. Like being dead, she considered, only worse, the reason being, you were alive to suffer it.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

Granny disapproved of magic for domestic purposes, but she was annoyed. She also wanted her tea. She threw a couple of logs into the fireplace and glared at them until they burst into flame out of sheer embarrassment.

You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.

Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae find it is misery.

SEE! I HAVE TIME. AT LAST, I HAVE TIME Albert backed away nervously. 'And now that you have it, what are you going to do with it?' he said. Death mounted his horse. I AM GOING TO SPEND IT.

It is considered in the Sto Plains that only scoundrels know the second verse of their national anthem, since anyone spending time memorizing that would be up to no good purpose.

Lu-Tze had long considered that everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.

Witches know that people die; and if they manages to die after a long time, leavin' the world better than they went an' found it, well then, that's surely a reason to be happy. All the rest of it is just tidyin' up.

But a girl starting out in life might well say to herself: 'Is this it? You worked hard and denied yourself things and what you got at the end was hard work and self-denial?

It is a strange thing to find yourself doing something you have apparently always wanted to do, when in fact up until that moment you had never known that you had always wanted to do it, or even what it was

what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. CATS, he said eventually, CATS ARE NICE.

Sooner or later, it's all about the soul.

Whether you wanted it or not, you were born, you did the best you could, and then, whether you really wanted to or not, you died.

The road, Hwel felt, had to go somewhere. This geographical fiction has been the death of many people. Roads don't necessarily have to go anywhere, they just have to have somewhere to start.

Terry Pratchett lives in England, an island off the coast of France, where he spends his time writing Discworld novels in accordance with the Very String Anthropic Principle, which holds that the entire Purpose of the Universe is to make possible a being that will live in England, an island off the coast of France, and spend his time writing Discworld novels. Which is exactly what he does. Which proves the whole business true. Any questions?

Wizards don't believe in gods. They didn't deny their existence, of course. They just didn't believe. It was nothing personal; they weren't actually rude about it. Gods were a visible part of narrativium that made things work, that gave the world its purpose. It was just that they were best avoided close up.

Being a buisance is not something you should die of.

Walking purposefully, in the knowledge that no one with their sleeves rolled up who walks purposefully with a piece of paper held conspicuously in their hand is ever challenged, he set off across the wood and canvas wonderland of Interesting and Instructive Kinematography.