Quotes About Purpose

Death focuses the mind on the things that really matter: why are we here, and what should we do?

The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, its energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?

The Will to Death is what keeps me alive

You know, the purpose of reconciliation is to avoid the filibuster. The filibuster is an effort to talk something to death.

The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.

I want to go on living even after death!

And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Someday you will die, and until you know that, you're useless to me.

Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

... the way we view death determines, to a surprising degree, the way we live our lives.

What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?

acknowledging wholeheartedly, as the enigma that it is, the pointless meaningfulness of living—

the perverse senselessness of just remaining, of not going.

Hard to determine from the way she tackled her tasks whether it was she who was serving necessity or necessity that was serving her.

Anyone with any brains understands that he is destined to lead a stupid life because there is no other kind.

You're somebody who has banished all superfluous sentiments from his life. No asinine longings to be home again. No patience for the nonessential. Only time for what's indispensable.

You do only the right thing, the right thing and the right thing and the right thing, going back all the way. You try to be a thoughtful person, a reasonable person, an accomodating person, and then this happens. Where is the sense of life?

Every mundane detail, quickly forgotten, marks our time on this earth. We're doing nothing. Just living.

Whatever we set out to make- a meal, a table, a bed- we should make as well as we can. To do otherwise is spiritless.

We do well to remember that the Bible has far more to say about how to live during the journey than about the ultimate destination.

The main purpose of prayer is not to make life easier, nor to gain magical powers, but to know God.

I'm convinced that human beings instinctively seek two things. We long for meaning, a sense that our life somehow matters to the world around us. And we long for community, a sense of being loved.

only love can summon a response of love, which is the one thing God wants from us and the reason he created us.