Quotes About Purpose

We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence

Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.

Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.

I spend my days preparing for life, not preparing for death.

Quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

If you had the cure to cancer wouldn't you share it? .. You have the cure to death .. get out there and share it.

Never thoughts of suicide, I'm too alive. But I still treat it like it's do or die.. even though dyin' isn't in the plans, but neither was makin' it and here I am

Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

She made the decision that her existence had lost its meaning. And you cannot judge that.

The real question is: how can I live so that my death will be fruitful for others?

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

Death is my exit strategy. I'll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

If work is no antidote to death, nor a denial of it, death is a powerful stimulus to work. Get done what you can.

It is not in our choice to spread the gospel or not. It is our death if we do not.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Since you're going to die anyway, why not go do whatever it is you are in the mood to do. To postpone anything is ridiculous, if it's important to you.

I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death.

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

I said to myself, 'I want to die decently'.

Everyone dies. It is how one lives that matters.

I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.