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Quotes About Purpose

You are like a garbage man, what will you do with my life story? Para kang nangangalakal ng basura!
~ Ambeth R. Ocampo
Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.
~ Ambrose Bierce
TRUTH, n.: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy, which is the most ancient occupation of the human mind and has a fair prospect of existing with increasing activity to the end of time.
~ Ambrose Bierce
It is your duty in life to save your dream.
~ Amedeo Modigliani
Breath belongs to Mehay. Ecl has no use for it.
~ Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Why do I do this?
~ Joe Abercrombie
Killing a man by accident had made her a villain. Killing another on purpose had made her a hero. But all she could do was frown at the body as they dragged it out, and feel there was something very odd in all this.
~ Joe Abercrombie
It's a crime, when you think about how little time we get, that a man should ever be bored. When you are lying on your death bead, I expect you regret those weeks wasted more than your worst mistakes.
~ Joe Abercrombie
He could do anything and it would be right, for he had made himself a willing puppet of God's purpose and in so doing freed himself. He alone free, surrounded by slaves.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I would be the last to disagree, but you fail to see that you are worse. No man capable of greater evil than the one who thinks himself in the right. No purpose more evil than the higher purpose. I freely admit I am a villain. That's why you hired me. But I am no hypocrite.
~ Joe Abercrombie
It's a crime, when you think about how little time we get, that a man should ever be bored. When you're lying on your deathbed, I expect you regret those weeks wasted more than your worst mistakes.
~ Joe Abercrombie
There are a hundred reasons to carry a blade in a slaughterhouse. But there can only ever be one reason to try and hide one.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Moartea ne a?teapt? pe to?i. Nimic nu dureaz? o ve?nicie. Iar scopul omului în via?? e s? încerce s? fac? totul cât mai bine.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Is this still battle? Is this still the glorious matching of man against man? Or is this just murder? He did not care. I cannot tell jokes, or make pretty conversation, but this I can do. This I am made for. Bremer dan Gorst, king of the world!
~ Joe Abercrombie
Ah yes! I had the chance to leave all this behind. Yet I chose to come back. Change is not a simple thing, eh, Sergeant? I entirely see and understand the pointlessness and waste of it all, yet I do it anyways. Does that make me worse or better than the man who does it thinking himself ennobled by a righteous cause? Or the man who does it for his own profit, without the slightest grain of thought for right or wrong? Or are we all the same?
~ Joe Abercrombie
Do you think this is what Ankran would have wanted?' he muttered. 'To be dead?' said Jaud. 'I doubt it.
~ Joe Abercrombie
What's the difference between biding it and wasting it?" Clover saw no need to open his eyes. "Results, woman. Results.
~ Joe Abercrombie
What are you doing?' 'What we should all be doing,' Clover closed his eyes. 'Biding my time.' 'What's the difference between biding it and wasting it?' Clover saw no need to open his eyes. 'Results, woman. Results.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Amazing how far you can get if you stick to a straight line and look like you've got every reason to be there.
~ Joe Abercrombie
But what does it matter? It is not how you die, but how you lived, that counts.
~ Joe Abercrombie
We are all dead men, brother, in due course. It is how we get there that counts.
~ Joe Abercrombie
My wound existed before; I was born to embody it.
~ Joë Bousquet
Don't die with your music still inside you.11
~ Joe Casey
Are we defined by where we want to go or where we've been?
~ Joe Coomer