Quotes About Purpose

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table—the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

I slunk off in direction of the cocktail table - the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

Foarte puÈ›ini dintre cei care subliniaz? inutilitatea vieÈ›ii observ? inutilitatea lor înÈ™ile. Probabil cred c?, proclamând inutilitatea vieÈ›ii, reuÈ™esc s?-È™i salveze propia valoare de la ruin? - dar nu reulÈ™esc.

If there is such a thing as complete happiness, it is knowing that you are in the right place.

Poor little old human beings—they're jerked into this world without having any idea where they came from or what it is they are supposed to do, or how long they have to do it in. Or where they are gonna wind up after that. But bless their hearts, most of them wake up every morning and keep on trying to make some sense out of it. Why, you can't help but love them, can you? I just wonder why more of them aren't as crazy as betsy bugs." —Aunt Elner, 1978

All he was doing was just sitting around killing time, looking at the birds and waiting to die.

If anything happiness is a feeling of being essential

God in heaven, was this what I was put on earth for, to be a receptacle for men's lust?

Tudo vale a pena quando a alma não é pequena

Se depois de eu morrer, quiserem escrever a minha biografia, não há nada mais simples. Têm só duas datas: a da minha nascença e a da minha morte. Entre uma e outra coisa, todos os dias são meus

FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough...

I seek and don't find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.

Peki, kim kurtaracak beni var olmaktan?

Ich bin der Zwischenraum zwischen dem, was ich bin, und dem, was ich nicht bin, zwischen dem, was ich träume, und dem, was das Leben aus mir gemacht hat, der abstrakte und leibliche Mittelwert zwischen Dingen, die nichts sind, da ich ebenfalls nichts bin. Welche Unruhe, wenn ich fühle, welch Unbehagen, wenn ich denke, welche Nutzlosigkeit, wenn ich will!

Tudo o mais é uma grande maçada para quem está presente por acaso. E a sociedade em que nascemos é o lugar onde mais por acaso estamos presentes.

And now I'm sleepy, because I think – I don't know why – that the meaning of it all is to sleep.

Some people have big dreams in life which they never fulfill. Others don't have any dreams in life, and they don't fulfill those either.

Por qué es bello el arte? Porque es inútil ¿Por qué es tan fea la vida? Porque en ella todo son fines y propósitos. Todos sus caminos conducen de un punto hasta otro punto. ¡ojalá hubiera un camino hecho en un lugar donde nadie parta hacia otro lugar al que nadie va! Quién

I have to choose what I detest – either dreaming, which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action, for which I wasn't born, or dreaming, for which no one was born.

Agir, eis a inteligência verdadeira. Serei o que quiser. Mas tenho que querer o que for.

A avea cât s? m?nânci ÅŸi s? bei,unde s? locuieÅŸti ÅŸi puÅ£in timp liber ca s? poÅ£i s? visezi,s? scrii sau s? dormi,oare ce aÅŸ putea s? le cer mai mult Zeilor,sau s? sper din partea Destinului?

Who am I behind this unreality? I don't know. I must be someone. And if I do not seek to live, to act or to feel, it is — believe me — so as not to disturb the already laid-down lines of my false persona.