Quotes About Purpose

This made her remember why people take up walking: It is because they no longer have anywhere to go.

The things he did on purpose were usually no different from the mistakes he made by accident.

The reason behind everything always has to be something else entirely.

But regardless of the direction you move, the central problem is still there: Why do it? What's the best reason for exploding the parameters of reality? With the possible exception of eating a dinosaur, I don't think there is one.

In the nineties, doing nothing on purpose was a valid option, and a specific brand of cool became more important than almost anything else. The key to that coolness was disinterest in conventional success. The nineties were not an age for the aspirant.

It is crazy," said the nervous little man I'd followed up the street. "That's the only thing you learn in law school that's useful: Laws are crazy on purpose. Everything is negotiable. If you make a law complicated enough, you can apply it any way you want. You just need to make sure it's so complicated that no normal person can understand it, unless they went to law school.

Long ago, lawyers realized that they could make themselves culturally essential if they made the vernacular of contracts too complex for anyone to understand except themselves. They made the language of contracts unreadable on purpose.

According to the director, Primer is a movie about the relationship between risk and trust. This is true. But it also makes a concrete point about the potential purpose of time travel—it's too important to use only for money, but too dangerous to use for anything else.

Unless cataclysmic events are actively breaking, the purpose of cable news is emotional reassurance.

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

If you don't know what you want, the doorman said, you end up with a lot you don't.

All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

You have to give up! you have to give up! You have to realize that someday you will die, Until you know that, you are useless!

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.

Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history. No purpose or place. We have no Great War, No Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

We want you, not your money. As long as you're at fight club, you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself. You're not your name. You're not your problems. You're not your age. You are not your hopes. You will not be saved. We are all going to die, someday.

As an artist you organize your life so that you get a chance to paint, a window of time, but that's no guarantee you'll create anything worth all your effort. You're always haunt by the idea you're wasting your life.

If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.