Quotes About Purpose

I only exist here as a formality. — Ingmar Bergman, from the screenplay The Passion of Anna (1969)

What, is THAT it? Is that all there is to life, to MY life, to MY existence? And even the young can

Indeed, the exclusion of Purpose is convenient to the elimination of conscience.

If you took acting away from me, I'd stop breathing.

There are things that are more important than life.

He wasn't alive because he feared death. He was alive because he loved life.

Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?

Have you ever been on a roller coaster, Togawa-kun? You're only riding on it for a few minutes, right? If you spent the entire ride thinking "only so many seconds left... until this ride is over..." then what was the point of riding it in the first place? Nobody knows why we're alive. We don't have the time to bother.

You are only partly alive.

A chance to sit quietly and find out who you are; where you've been and where you're going.

Fish in the right waters. Know what you're looking for. Throw back the ones that aren't worth keeping. It's a big ocean out there.

I was so determined to experience everything and everyone I could that I don't think I ever stopped to truly appreciate any of it. Then, somewhere along the way, I realized it's important to have a good reason to experience the things in my life. Not just because they're there.

What would I do with billions? I don't need it. Would it make me a better artist?

God made time, but man made haste.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

There is no more desire to live past one's time than to die before it.

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

Even at the time—twenty years old—I said to myself: better to go hungry, to go to prison, to be a tramp, than to sit at an office desk ten hours a day. There is no particular daring in this vow, but I have not broken it and shall not do so. The wisdom of my grandfathers sat in my head: we are born for the pleasure of work, fighting, love, we are born for that and nothing else. (Guy de Maupassant)

There is a plan to this universe. There is a high intelligence, maybe even a purpose, but it's given to us on the installment plan.

in the end, the only thing that matters is what we do with the time that we have left.

My purpose on this planet is to live up to my potential, everything else just adds to the experience.

The questions that keep us up at night are the questions which drive us during the day.