Quotes About Purpose

the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

He'd lived his forty-seven years with enviable panache and intensity, maintaining that human beings foolishly allowed their existence to drift by as if they were going to live for ever: that was their undoing.

Esta vida vale la pena vivirla por tres o cuatro cosas, y lo demás es abono para el campo.

El territorio de los seres humanos es la vida. La muerte no nos pertenece.

Az ember azért hisz, amiért levegÅ't vesz: mert életben akar maradni.

If you don't know where you're going, you won't get anywhere

Mientras se trabaja, no no le mira a la vida a los ojos.

Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station.

Making money isn't hard in itself," he complained. "What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

Cuando sólo se habla por hablar, poco se piensa y aún menos se hace.

The territory of humans is life. Death does not belong to us.

El que no sabe adónde va no llega a ninguna parte. -[...] Dame tiempo y yo te la contruiré. -¿Lo prometes? -Te lo prometo.

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. As I said, pure biology.

What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

Acho que nada acontece por acaso,sabes?Que,no fundo,as coisas têm o seu plano secreto,embora nós não o entendamos.Como o de teres encontrado aquele romance de Julián Carax no Cemitério dos Livros Esquecidos,ou o de tu e eu estarmos agora aqui,nesta casa que pertenceu aos Aldaya.Tudo faz parte de qualquer coisa que não conseguimos perceber,mas que nos possui.

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwards I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

Lo difícil no es ganar dinero sin más -se lamentaba-. Lo difícil es ganarlo haciendo algo a lo que valga la pena dedicarle la vida.

Yo creo que nada sucede por casualidad, ¿sabes? Que, en el fondo, las cosas tienen su plan secreto, aunque nosotros no lo entendamos...todo forma parte de algo que no podemos entender, pero que nos posee.

Quizá su momento aún no había pasado. Quizá le quedaba todavía una razón para seguir viviendo.

Azért iszunk, hogy emlékezzünk, és azért írunk, hogy felejtsünk.

Az elsÅ' lépés önmagad megismerésében, ha különbséget tudsz tenni aközött, hogy miért teszel valamit, meg hogy mit mondasz, miért teszed. De ennél még odébb van, hogy valaki ne legyen kretén.

Ich glaube, nichts geschieht aus Zufall. Im Grunde hat alles seinen geheimen Plan, auch wenn wir ihn nicht verstehen.

Making money isn't hard in itself, what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to.

I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it.