Quotes About Purpose

BECKMANN: Ich soll leben, sagst du! Dieses Leben leben? Dann sag mir auch: Wozu? Für Wen? Für was? DER ANDERE: Für dich! Für das Leben! Deine Straße wartet. Und hin und wieder kommen Laternen. Bist du so feige, daß du Angst hast vor der Finsternis zwischen zwei Laternen? Willst du nur Laternen haben? Komm, Beckmann, weiter, bis zur nächsten Laterne.

It's very hard to keep your spirits up. You've got to keep selling yourself a bill of goods, and some people are better at lying to themselves than others. If you face reality too much, it kills you.... you've got to find an answer to the question: Why go on?

I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.

The world may or may not be with our purpose. But its not totally without some kind of magic" [Magic in the moonlight movie - by Woody Allen]

El hombre inconsistente Estamos aquí sin saber el porqué. Y antes de darnos cuenta de cómo ha sido, todo se ha acabado. El quid está en disfrutar de cada momento. Estar vivos ya es un motivo de felicidad.

I don't like the idea of awards for artistic things. They're not created for the purpose of competition; they're made to fulfill an artistic itch and hopefully entertain. I'm not interested in any group's pronunciamento as to which film is the best film of the year, or the best book, or the Most Valuable Player.

So unless you have a strong spiritual feeling, spiritual faith, it's tough to get through life.

As I got older, not just extinction but the meaninglessness of existence became clearer to me. I ran into the same question that bugged the former prince of Denmark: Why suffer the slings and arrows when I can just wet my nose, insert it into the light socket, and never have to deal with anxiety, heartache, or my mother's boiled chicken ever again?

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve it through not dying.

They asked me my goal in life. I said, to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race and see if it could be mass-produced in plastic.

You know what you are? You're God's answer to Job, ... He would have pointed to you and said, Y'know, I do a lot of terrible things, but I can still make one of these.

If you want to have a future, don't do anything with no future in it.

What we desire, what we work for, or what we seek after, are those things that merely lead us along the paths of our lives.

Estas cosas si las pensás, no las hacés, y si las hacés, ¿Ya para qué pensás?

there was something in me that would not rest until I fulfilled a grand destiny. Thus I created an empire in my thoughts long before I began to win an empire in reality. When

Being able to see the end of anything gave him a tremendous sense of relief. As a child he had assumed the goal of medicine was to keep bodies alive forever; he had never considered the pain of not being able to die.

What do you do for a living? The first thing everyone always wants to know is what I do when I'm not sleeping, what sorts of exams and theses I have to my name as if they wanted to reserve a place in my curriculum vitae for the date of my death. There ought to be a curriculum vitae whose first line is the date of death.

If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

I preferred to set off and perish in search of my own kind than to live a lonely half-life of physical comfort and spiritual death on this murderous island.

Because to suffer and do nothing is to be nothing, while to suffer and do something is to become someone.

We must do the same with death in our lives: resolve it, give it meaning, put it into context, however hard that might be.

Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? [...] Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist.