Quotes About Purpose

All my life I have been surrounded by things I'd rather not know too much about, so I have come to feel that truth made naked without purpose is really a wanton.

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

We are all on earth to help others. What on earth the others are here for, I can't imagine.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

Of what use to the flowers are their sweet odors? Do they themselves enjoy them? No. Are they meant for the pleasure of animals? Did you ever see a sheep or a dog pause before a rose to inhale its perfume? Then it was for man alone that the rich treasures are meant. Wherefore? That they may be loved, perhaps.

What am I lying here for?...We are lying here as though we had a chance of enjoying a quiet time...Am I waiting until I become a little older?

Death is the end of those who have done nothing to cause their names to live after them.

Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.

Maybe there's a place out there where people whose hearts aren't empty can go on living.

Maybe there's a place out there where people whose hearts aren't empty can go on living.

Your voice is trapped inside this machine. It's not broken, it's just been sealed off now that it no longer has a purpose.

I don't know. Maybe there's a place out there where people whose hearts aren't empty can go on living.

Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally.

Life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves.

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness.

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive? My hunch is yes. It would certainly do something for those who are most ruthless, who tend to make others most miserable. Some sort of greater awareness of their own finiteness and what their time on earth really is, and what they really want to do with their lives, could help improve them.

Wrong faith. Wrong purpose. You can't light a fire on logs soaked with urine.

If I didn't have children, I think my life would be a failure.

Quand la femme n'est pas l'ambition suprême de l'homme, quand elle n'est pas la fin de toute initiative en ce monde, la vie ne mériterait ni ses joies ni ses peines

This isnt life, we just exist.

Ci sono uomini indolenti, sono fatti così, altri che non vogliono perdere un solo attimo di tempo, e si danno da fare, che differenza c'è? Gli uomini si agitano fino a quando non muoiono.