Quotes About Purpose

Who says there has to be a point? He asked. Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.

I told you, everyone understands a quest.

Why should I even bother? What's the point, really? He thought for a moment. Who says there has to be a point? he asked. Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do.

You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.

what you have to decide, is how you want your life to be. if your forever was ending tomorrow, would this b the way you'd want to have spent it?

None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.

talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.

In the end, though, maybe it's not how you reach a place that matters. Just that you get there at all.

No matter where you are, home or the strangest of places, everyone wants to look like they know where they're going.

I don't know, I said. Maybe you're right, and all that stuff I think I missed is overrated. Why should I even bother? What's the point really? He thought for a moment. Who says there has to be a point? he asked. Or a reason. Maybe it's just something you have to do. He moved down to start bagging while I just stood there, letting this sink in. Just something you have to do. No excuse or rationale necessary. I kind of like that.

What you have to decide," Kristy said to me, leaning forward, "is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you'd want to have spent it?

Man is not born to be happy.

she were going to let her vexation flare outward, she would have done better to put her foot down with Charles than singe the girls. Then at least it would have served some purpose. Nor could she simply swallow her ire and leave the child beneath her apron to pickle in such brine. She had charge over their moods, and she would not squander it.

I am exactly where I should be, doing exactly what I should be doing. That is peace.

I think a person has to believe in something, or search out some kind of faith; otherwise life is empty, nothing. How can you live not knowing why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky... Either you know why you live, or it's all small, unnecessary bits.

The only thing stopping this address from turning into a slacker parable is the absence of the word "dude.

That's what existence means: draining one's own self dry without the sense of thirst.

A human being who wakened in the morning with a queesy stomach, with fifteen hours to kill before next bedtime, had not much use for freedom.

Existence is prior to essence.

People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.

Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?

You don't know what you've got within you. A person either creates or he destroys. There is no neutrality …

Well, I need a job. Something that'll leave me the free time I want. I like the way you arrange your life. What do you intend to do with this free time? I intend to use it. I didn't like the implication of this. Why should he need his time free and I be questioned?

What's life? Metabolism? That's what it is for the bugs.