Quotes About Purpose

With nothing to really aspire to, life had become about maintenance. Eternal maintenance.

Entweder geschehen die Dinge aus einem bestimmten Grund oder sie geschehen einfach so. Entweder ist das Leben eines Menschen ein Faden in einem prächtigen Teppich oder die Menschheit ist einfach nur ein hoffnungslos verheddertes Knäuel. Miracolina hat immer an den Teppich geglaubt, und jetzt schätzt sie sich glücklich, dass sie einen Blick in seine kleinste Ecke erhaschen durfte.

Even now, at the end of her life, she still has to face that inevitable question. What good are you?

I ask every thinking man to show me what remains of life.

Je questionnai l'un de ces hommes, et je lui demandai où ils allaient ainsi. Il me répondit qu'il n'en savait rien, ni lui, ni les autres ; mais qu'évidemment ils allaient quelque part, puisqu'ils étaient poussés par un invincible besoin de marcher.

unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?

Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness.

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?

regret is mostly caused by not having done anything.

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.

having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it's your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it al is

I wasn't going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren't even doing little things. We were vegetables.

don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.

I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.

I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.

What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do? Catch butterflies

I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.

they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it all is.

anything, compared to the people, is a foundation worth searching for. anything.

What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

you must some day die for nothing as I have lived.