No Purpose Quotes

#1. Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

Rick Warren

#2. You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.

Grant Cardone

#3. There's no way to do that, Miss Archer. I won't say that if you refuse me you'll kill me; I shall not die of it. But I shall do worse; I shall live to no purpose.

Henry James

#4. Personally making a film solely for the shock value serves no purpose to me.

Timo Tjahjanto

#5. Still, it's better to be distracted by the crowd than to be left with memories that serve no purpose other than to torture the conscience and flog the heart.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. There is no passion. There is solely obsession.
There is no knowledge. There is solely conviction.
There is no purpose. There is solely will.
There is nothing ...
Only me.

Daniel Wallace

#7. A woman today who has no goal, no purpose, no ambition patterning her days into the future, making her stretch and grow beyond that small score of years in which her body can fill its biological function, is committing a kind of suicide.

Betty Friedan

#8. Actions without a dream serve you no purpose, Dreams without action merely pass the time, however, a Dream set into motion ... .the future has no boundaries.

Mark W. Boyer

#9. Presumably there is indeed no purpose in the ultimate fate of the cosmos, but do any of us really tie our life's hopes to the ultimate fate of the cosmos anyway? Of course we don't; not if we are sane. Our lives are ruled by all sorts of closer, warmer, human ambitions and perceptions.

Richard Dawkins

#10. There was a man who killed a buffalo bull to no purpose, only he wanted the blood on his hands.

N. Scott Momaday

#11. People with places to go and people with no place to go; people with a purpose and people with no purpose; people trying to hold time back and people trying to urge it forward

Haruki Murakami

#12. But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

Cesare Pavese

#13. It serves no purpose to man if there is no room for repentance, and he who is tormented can never grow better ... let this punishment be severe, let it be bitter, nay let it be lasting, but let it at length have an end ...

Thomas Burnet

#14. Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.

Kate Atkinson

#15. Without a future, the present serves no purpose,

Jose Saramago

#16. Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness.

Jean Paul

#17. I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.

Abraham Lincoln

#18. Let's all keep quiet, there are times when words serve no purpose, if only I, too, could weep, say everything with tears, not have to speak in order to be understood.

Jose Saramago

#19. I see no purpose in Bad Coffee, Bad Wine, or Insincere friends.

Edward L. Morse

#20. If our suffering has a purpose, it is infinitely easier to bear than if our suffering has no purpose and no larger meaning. When a mother endures childbirth, she knows that it is leading to something life changing and glorious.

Eric Metaxas

#21. My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?

Charles M. Schulz

#22. Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#23. I think I lot of young people feel like they have no purpose, so I try to enlighten them with my life and show them you can do whatever you put your mind to.

Rahki

#24. For many, to live in a universe that may have no purpose, and no creator, is unthinkable.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#25. As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.

Chinua Achebe

#26. I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in musing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose.

John Clare

#27. The river moved so swiftly and yet it had no purpose other than to flow, just flow.

Gioconda Belli

#28. Evolution works by selection, not by instruction. There is no final cause, no teleology, no purpose guiding the overall process

Gerald Edelman

#29. His expression hardened. It was unpleasant to have feelings that he had been at pains to check aroused to no purpose

Kobo Abe

#30. Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

Camilo Jose Cela

#31. Ah," he said in a tone of genial wisdom, "a chancellor is rather like a bidet. Everyone is pleased to have one, but no one knows quite what they are for." A chancellor is nominally the head of a university, but in practice has no role, no power, no purpose.

Bill Bryson

#32. We are all here for no purpose, unless we can invent one. Of that I am sure. The human condition in an exploding universe would not have been altered one iota if, rather than live as I have, I had done nothing but carry a rubber ice-cream cone from closet to closet for sixty years.

Kurt Vonnegut

#33. To me, the most unhappy people in the world are the people ... in Palm Beach- Going to parties every night. Playing golf every afternoon, then bridge. [They have] no purpose.

Richard M. Nixon

#34. I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#35. I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book ...

Vladimir Nabokov

#36. Unless we take care to clear the first principles of knowledge from the incumbrance and delusion of words, we may make infinite reasonings upon them to no purpose. We may deduce consequences, and never be the wiser.

David Berman

#37. Meanings with no purpose are useful for meaningless debates on what the "meaner" meant. And that's what #politics is all about - misreading.

Will Advise

#38. Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therefore no point in carrying on.

Viktor E. Frankl

#39. Beauty is gloriously useless; it has no purpose but itself.

David Bentley Hart

#40. The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accordance with nature, in her manner of operation.

John Cage

#41. If I'm a phenomenon, it makes me feel like I have no purpose.

Jewel

#42. Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise of the imagination analogous to the exercising of the physical body to no purpose other than ecstatic release.

Joyce Carol Oates

#43. The modern antithesis of observation and reason on the one hand versus revelation and faith on the other is only tenable on the basis of a prior decision that the whole cosmic and human story has no purpose and therefore no meaning. It

Lesslie Newbigin

#44. It's one thing to be discouraged. It's another thing to have despair. Despair is when you think there's just no end to this [suffering]. There's no solution for this. Despair is when you think that your suffering has no purpose, and your suffering has no end.

Max Lucado

#45. When we are understood, we always speak well, and then all your fine diction serves no purpose.

Moliere

#46. There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.

Winston Churchill

#47. The thing about hope is that it doesn't go away even when it serves no purpose.

Lauren DeStefano

#48. A city of Dreadful Nights:
The world rolls round forever like a mill, it grinds out life and death and good and ill. It has no purpose, heart, nor mind, nor will.

James Thompson

#49. Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.

Joan Robinson

#50. The purpose of guilt is to bring us to the Lord, after that it has no purpose.

Mother Teresa

#51. There is such a thing as emotional rubbish; it is produced in the factories of the mind. It consists of pain that has long since passed and is no longer useful. It consists of precautions that were important in the past, but that serve no purpose in the present.

Paulo Coelho

#52. The bottom line is, painting, at its richest, is done best with no purpose whatsoever aside from pleasing the person making the art.

Charles Sovek

#53. I'm very proud of being persona non grata. I've never been that before in my life, and that suits me extremely wellI'm known for provocations, but I like provocations when they have a purpose. And this had no purpose whatsoever. Because I'm not Mel Gibson. I'm definitely not Mel Gibson.

Lars Von Trier

#54. Sometimes, as we practice jnana yoga, we feel that life has no meaning, no purpose. We feel that there is no reason to try, that life is empty. This is another illusion.

Frederick Lenz

#55. And what you thought you came for
is only a shell, a husk of meaning
from which the purpose breaks only when it is fulfilled
if at all. Either you had no purpose
or the purpose is beyond the end you figured
And is altered in fulfillment.

T. S. Eliot

#56. Only people with no purpose are unhappy.

Cassandra Clare

#57. Impotent fury rages powerless and to no purpose.

Virgil

#58. Why is the world so elaborate, if it has no purpose? Think of the care that goes into the least little insect and weed around us. You say you love me; then you must love life. Life is a gift, for which we must give something back.

John Updike

#59. We alone, of the thousands who walk this earth, we alone in this hour are doing a work which has no purpose save that we wish to do it.

Ayn Rand

#60. I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.

Cassandra Clare

#61. For one thing, the penthouse was simply too big. Besides the seventy-one bedrooms, there were a number of living rooms, dining rooms, breakfast rooms, snack rooms, sitting rooms, standing rooms, ballrooms, bathrooms, kitchens, and an assortment of rooms that seem to have no purpose at all.

Lemony Snicket

#62. You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

Chris Hughes

#63. It is not for you to prove anything to me, Two Wolves. It is for you to find your purpose. A man with no purpose is a man with no soul.

Victoria Vane

#64. Leave yesterday in yesterday. If yesterday cannot add value to YOUR today, then it has no place and serves no purpose.

Stephanie Lahart

#65. Help me to be in the world for no purpose at all except for the joy of sunlight and rain.
Keep me close to the edge, where everything wild begins.

Tom Hennen

#66. Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#67. Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#68. People get so frightened for no reason, but I'll tell you, to live with no purpose is a far more frightening proposition ... You bring yourself to say yes when you always thought the only possible answer was no, and your whole world changes.

Liz Rosenberg

#69. The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it.

Ann Aguirre

#70. I wonder how many loose buttons there are in this world, just rolling around in a jar without a mate or a blouse to go on. No purpose. Just siting there unnoticed. Forgotten.

Sarah Ockler

#71. Tragedy of life is not to have many purposes in life, but to have no purpose in life.

Debasish Mridha

#72. Progress is something with no pity, and no purpose. It just happens. It chews up all you ever knew, and spits out things you can't understand, and the only value it seems to have is to make a few people a lot of money.

Spider Robinson

#73. Then again it may be said, there is a purpose above each purpose, and there is again a purpose under each purpose; and yet beyond and beneath all purposes there is no purpose. The creation is, because it is.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#74. Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804)

Benjamin Constant

#75. Are you mad? (Artemis)
Yes, I am. Mad at this world where we are nothing to the gods. Mad at the Fates who put us here for no purpose except to toy with us for their petty amusement. I wish all of the gods were dead and gone. (Acheron)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#76. Judge yourself and beware of passing judgement on others. In judging others we expend our energy to no purpose; we are often mistaken and easily sin. But if we judge ourselves our labour is always to our profit.

Thomas A Kempis

#77. His memory is perfectly clear

and serves no good, no purpose
at all. He has seen things before

(the fly in the bottle,
the indeterminate will).

Santa Muerte, Saint Death,
we pray to you to swallow our breath.

Michael Palmer

#78. To will is to put your emotion into your desire. Simply wanting is not desire, it is merely an undirected thought with no purpose but to pass the time.

Stephen Richards

#79. The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

Richard Dawkins

#80. As Alfred North Whitehead once put it, those who devote themselves to the purpose of proving that there is no purpose constitute an interesting subject for study.

Edward Feser

#81. When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.

Stephen Fry

#82. It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

Ovid

#83. With drooping shoulders The majority sit hunched, their foreheads furrowed like Stony ground that has been repeatedly ploughed-up to no purpose.

Bertolt Brecht

#84. The world rolls round forever like a mill; it grinds out death and life and good and ill; it has no purpose, heart or mind or will.

James Thomson

#85. My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose.
I love what I do not have. You are so far.
My loathing wrestles with the slow twilights.

Pablo Neruda

#86. The higher state to which [America] seeks the allegiance of all mankind is not of human, but of divine origin. She cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

Calvin Coolidge

#87. Don't be the person who has an overflowing cup of knowledge but an inactive state of action. That serves no-one, that serves no purpose.

Tony Curl

#88. A punishment is not self-explanatory. It serves no purpose until the person serving it knows the real reason for being punished.

Amit Pandey

#89. People want nothing but mirrors around them. To reflect them while they're reflecting too ... Reflections of reflections and echoes of echoes. No beginning and no end. No center and no purpose.

Ayn Rand

#90. He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

Ken Follett

#91. It was very important that it be done in such a way that it be executed with complete conviction. If I had done it both ways, if I was trying to cover myself in case it didn't work, then it would have been to no purpose.

Atom Egoyan

#92. God reveals Himself to us through Scripture and His creation; if we can't discern His will, the revelation serves no-purpose. Thus, God has given us knowledge (Proverbs 2:6). Since humans have limited capacity for all knowledge, He has also given us the ultimate gift--faith.

Samuel C. Tseng

#93. The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down
vast monument of strength.

John Milton

#94. No purpose, no science, only love alone can justify and explain the mysteries of creation.

Debasish Mridha

#95. Nothing is quite so beautiful as when you share it with it with someone else. There is no purpose in working unless one works for someone, for something.

Louis L'Amour

#96. If a man doesn't have a dream, then he has nothing to work for. Nothing to get up in the morning. No reason, no purpose, to be

Kai Greene

#97. One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.

Craig Brown

#98. War! We go on killing each other to no purpose! It is war waged by humanity against humanity, and it will only end when there's no one left to fight.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#99. What happened in the virtual world, where beauty existed for the purpose of being hated and besmirched, was more compelling than what happened in the real world, where beauty seemed to have no purpose at all.

Jonathan Franzen

#100. Without the blessing of the Lord, your best endeavors will do no good. He has the hearts of all men in His hands, and except He touch the hearts of your children by His Spirit, you will weary yourself to no purpose. Water, therefore, the seed you sow on their minds with unceasing prayer.

J.C. Ryle