Quotes About Purpose

You know my name?" "Of course I do." "Well, that is fine," said Enoch. "And what about your own?" "I am seized with great embarrassment," the alien told him. "For I have no name as such. Identification, surely, that fits the purpose of my race, but nothing that the tongue can form.

Existentialists believe there is no purpose to life other than pleasure, but pleasure drifts like cigarette smoke into melancholy and ennui. A glass of absinthe and you are living the life. Drink a bottle and you're dead.

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.

I don't like crowds of any kind. A dinner party of more than six people is not, for me, a pleasure. I get less social as I get older... I am very resistant to anything that keeps me away from the business of making these journeys into the fantastique. They are my reason for being on the planet, as far as I can comprehend, and I pursue them to the cost of almost anything.

If nothing was worth living for it followed, didn't it, that there was nothing worth dying for either.

They will say your doubts shed innocent blood. But I say - what's blood for, if not for shedding?

Sure, work could be a pain in the ass, but it was purpose, and what was a life, any life, his life, without purpose?

And there... he realised that he had a subject , a labour of love that would give him purpose, that would make sense in the senseless academic world. He would not have to let his studies go to hell. He would be the luckiest of men: someone whose private obsessions and public life intersected.

When one loves one's work, time and inconvenience have little meaning.

I then swept the crumbs into my palm and opened one of the empty drawers and poured them in. I was working on the theory that if I collected enough crumbs, eventually I could make my own Twix. It's good to have a purpose in life.

Un tom?r j?s p?r?em d?vaina tukšuma saj?ta — lai ko j?s dar?tu, nekam nav noz?mes. Tieši tas noteikti ir divdesmit? gadsimta mor?l? bankrota c?lonis.

Man must believe in realities outside his own smallness, outside the 'triviality of everydayness', if he is to do anything worthwhile.

he has explored life from end to end and found it all hollow, when actually he is only constipated with his own worthless-ness. He fails to apply his intellect to the question, Why do all living things prefer life to death?

I had learned a basic lesson: that the secret of avoiding boredom is to have a strong sense of purpose.

You might say that the scientist is nothing more than a glorified accident-investigator. And the accident-investigator is himself the product of accident. But man is more deeply moved by meaning than by accident.

For the Outsider, the world into which he has been born is always a world without values.. Unless he can evolve a set of values that will correspond to his own higher intensity of purpose, he may as well throw himself under a bus.

It was not enough to survive, you have to live—

from one place but more important was where you decided to go.

An elevator doesn't exist without its freight. If there's no one to get on, the elevator remains in quiescence. The elevator and the passenger need each other.

Lander's talk verged on a sermon, concerning the dilemma of finding your purpose once you've slipped the yoke of slavery. The manifold frustrations of liberty.

Nie chodzi tylko o to, ?eby przetrwa?, ale aby ?y?.

Because to walk around with that in your mind and do nothing was to die.

Harriet Johnson was a slight hummingbird of a woman who conducted herself in everything with furious purpose.