Quotes About Purpose

The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is how to live with purpose.

A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.

Do what you love and the business will follow.

What about you, Michel, what are you going to do here?' The response closest to the truth was probably something like 'Nothing'; but it's always difficult to explain that kind of thing to an active person.

The academic study of literature leads basically nowhere, as we all know

Que pouvions-nous faire, donc? Vivre? C'est exactement dans ce genre de situation qu'écrasés par le sentiment de leur propre insignifiance les gens se décident à faire des enfants; ainsi se reproduit l'espèce, de moins en moins il est vrai.

Men in general don't know how to live: they have no true familiarity with life, and never feel entirely at ease in it, so they pursue different projects, more or less ambitious and more or less grandiose – generally speaking, of course, they fail and reach the conclusion that they would have been better off just living, but as a rule by that point it's too late.

În general, oamenii nu È™tiu s? tr?iasc?, nu se pun de acord cu viaÈ›a, nu se simt bine cu adev?rat în aceast? via??, aÈ™a încât ticluiesc diferite proiecte, mai mult sau mai puÈ›in ambiÈ›ioase, mai mult sau mai puÈ›in m?reÈ›e, dup? caz, È™i, de obicei, dau greÈ™, ajungând la concluzia c? ar fi fost mai bine, pur È™i simplu, s? tr?iasc?, dar, tot de obicei, e prea târziu pentru aÈ™a ceva.

A life lived in pursuit of a goal leaves little time for reminiscence.

I spent whole afternoons at Bon Marché looking at pullovers, there was no sense in going on like that.

Animals live without feeling the least need of justification, as do the crushing majority of men. They live because they live, and then I suppose they die because they die, and for them that's all there is to it.

Una vida volcada hacia una meta deja poco sitio para el recuerdo

Les hommes en géneral ne savent pas vivre, ils n'ont aucune vraie familiarité avec la vie, ils ne s'y sentent jamais tout à fait à leur aise, aussi poursuivent-ils différents projets, plus ou moins ambitieux plus ou moins grandioses c'est selon, en géneral bien entendu ils échouent et parviennent à la conclusion qu'ils aurait mieux fait, tout simplement, de vivre, mais en général il est trop tard.

Als ik de liefde niet heb begrepen, wat heb ik er dan aan om de rest te begrijpen?

I wondered what could interest me, now that I was finished with love.

Es obvio que la vida no tiene sentido. Pero tampoco la muerte.

Para qué servían los hombres? Puede que en épocas anteriores, cuando había muchos osos, la virilidad desempeñara un papel específico e insustituible, pero hacía siglos que los hombres, evidentemente, ya no servían para casi nada.

People cannot live without God; life becomes unbearable.

Nada es más útil para el hombre que el hombre mismo

El hombre nunca ha podido amar, más que en la inmortalidad; seguramente por eso las mujeres estaban más cerca del amor cuando tenían la misión de dar la vida. Hemos

Et en quoi une vie a-t-elle besoin d'être justifiée ? La totalité des animaux, l'écrasante majorité des hommes vivent sans jamais éprouver le moindre besoin de justification.

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.

You have to take an interest in something in life, I told myself. I wondered what could interest me, after I was finished with love. I could take a course in wine tasting, maybe, or start collecting model aeroplanes.