Quotes About Purpose

and without love, one is a dead man on furlough, nothing but a scrap of paper with a few dates and a chance name on it, and we as well die.

Unser Fehler ist, dass wir weder wirklich dumm noch wirklich gescheit sind. Immer so dazwischen, wie Affen in den Ästen. Das macht müde und manchmal traurig. Der Mensch muss wissen, wohin er gehört.

What do they expect of us if a time ever comes when the war is over? Through the years our business has been killing;-it was our first calling in life. Our knowledge of life is limited to death. What will happen afterwards? And what shall come out of us?

Es lag ihm nichts daran in einer Zeit, wo alles schwankte, etwas aufzubauen, das in kurzer Zeit wieder zusammenstürzen mußte. Es war besser, zu treiben, als Kraft zu verschwenden, sie war das einzige, was unersetzbar war. Überstehen war alles, bis irgendwo wieder ein Ziel sichtbar wurde. Je weniger Kraft man dazu anwandte, umso besser; man hatte sie dann nachher.

Džiaukis gyvenimu ir m?styk tik tada, kai tai reikalinga. - O kada reikalinga? - Kai nori užsidirbti pinig? arba prasimušti.

All at once I feel utterly dejected. "What was the good of it all, Mother?" I say. She strokes my hand. "It must have been for some good, Ernst. The Father in heaven knows, you may be sure of that.

Baudi dz?vi un dom? tikai tad, kad tas ir nepieciešams. [..] Kad j?pelna nauda vai gribi tikt dz?v? uz priekšu.

Lepe su te žene koje nas spre?avaju u tome da postanemo polubogovi, prave?i od nas o?eve porodica, gra?ane, ljude koji zara?uju novac, pošto su nas pre toga uhvatile iluzijom da nas ?ine bogovima.

Then what exactly is the war for?" asks Tjaden. Kat shrugs his shoulders. "There must be some people to whom the war is useful.

Wir sind überflüssig für uns selbst

Savo sumanymais žmogus visada yra didis. Tik ne j? ?vykdymu. Tuo jis ir yra žmogus.

Then what exactly is the war for?" asks Tjaden. Kat shrugs his shoulders. "There must be some people to whom the war is useful." "Well, I'm not one of them," grins Tjaden. "Not you, nor anybody else here.

Man lives, you're right! Whoever seeks further is already lost.

Cilv?ks vienm?r un visur ir non?cis gal?. Laiks ir aizspriedums. Tas ir dz?ves nosl?pums. Tikai m?s to nezin?m. M?s vienm?r tiecamies kaut kur non?kt.

Dažbr?d cilv?ks pavisam aizmirst, ka vi?š dz?vo. - Es gan to arvien apzinos. Tikai nezinu l?g?, ko ar to ies?kt.

Perhaps, Herr Ditzen, it is less important where one lives than how one lives.

This prolonging of a man's life doesn't interest me when he's done his work and has done it pretty well.

One young boy, asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, a fireman or pilot or such, answered: Alive.

it is less important where one lives than how one lives.

Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

Burnham's frequent admonition: "Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood." Burnham

I have never written a note I didn't mean.

a colorless chap who's never found himself because there isn't anything to find.

You hear a lot about people who are afraid to die. Well, they're nothing compared to the ones who are afraid to live—people who go through life just making motions—and conventional motions at that.