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Quotes About Purpose

You look back,' Max said, 'you can't believe that much time went by. You look ahead and you think, shit, if it goes that fast I better do something with it
~ Elmore Leonard
God is God and He lets things happen and that's all there is to it. But He has reasons, and His reasons for something happening would be more important than a man's reason for questioning whatever it might
~ Elmore Leonard
I want you to understand," Raylan said, "I don't pull my sidearm 'less I'm gonna shoot to kill. That's its purpose, huh, to kill. So it's how I use it.
~ Elmore Leonard
Life should not be measured by time. The only thing that counts is how one uses the time one has.
~ Eloisa James
I don't understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn't it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?
~ Emil Cioran
If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.
~ Emil Cioran
Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.
~ Emil Cioran
She wanted to live, and live fully, and to give life, she who loved life! What was the good of existing, if you couldn't give yourself?
~ Émile Zola
I'm a very ordinary man who's worked and fed like everyone else. I'm no longer afraid of dying, but death doesn't seem to want anything to do with me, now that I can see no point in living. I'm afraid he's forgotten me.
~ Émile Zola
Si vous me demandez ce que je viens faire en ce monde, moi artiste, je vous répondrai: je viens vivre tout haut.
~ Émile Zola
And what great thing have you done? asked the peasant. We? Oh, nothing. Then to the oven! he replied. The
~ Emilia Pardo Bazán
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles.
~ Emily Bronte
I cannot express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is or should be an existence of yours beyond you.  What were the use of my creation, if I were entirely contained here?
~ Emily Bronte
Qual seria o sentido da minha existência, se eu ficasse restrita ao que existe aqui?
~ Emily Bronte
I cannot express it; but surely you and every body have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of my creation if I were entirely contained here?
~ Emily Bronte
Ne mogu to izraziti, ali ti, kao svaki ?ovjek, zasigurno slutiš da postoji ili da bi trebao postojati život izvan našeg života. Kakve bi koristi bilo od mojeg postojanja kad bi bila u potpunosti dio ovog života?
~ Emily Bronte
Não sei como explicar mas certamente que tu e todos têm a noção de que existe, ou deveria existir, um outro eu para além de nós próprios. Para que serviria eu ter sido criada se apenas me resumisse a isto?
~ Emily Bronte
A che scopo sarei io stata creata se fossi interamente contenuta in me stessa?
~ Emily Bronte
Who of us knows just why we do what we do, much less another's whys, or what we're after? Art is not like that; cut and dried and hit-at like a bull's eye and done for a reason and explained away by this or that motive. It's climbing and striving for something always beyond.
~ Emily Carr
In a Life that stopped guessing, you and I should not feel at home
~ Emily Dickinson
I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Unto his nest again, I shall not live in vain.
~ Emily Dickinson
To be a Flower, is profound Responsibility
~ Emily Dickinson
Ma c'è dell'altro? Oltre all'amore e alla morte? Allora dimmene il nome.
~ Emily Dickinson
As if the chart were given.
~ Emily Dickinson