Top 100 Without Purpose Quotes
#1. Paradox as it may seem, we likewise find life meaningful only when we have seen that it is without purpose, and know the "mystery of the universe" only when we are convinced that we know nothing about it at all.
Alan W. Watts
#2. The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.
Rick Warren
#3. Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.
Rick Warren
#4. Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?
John Templeton
#5. If it weren't for Jesus, I would not be where I am today and my life would be without purpose. I've heard kids say they want to be just like me when they grow up. They should know I want to be just like Jesus.
Albert Pujols
#6. What if I'm just a sick animal? A creature shuffled into existence here by the random whims of evolution. Nothing more. An existence totally without inherent meaning, totally without purpose. What
Tim McBain
#7. Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.
John Carroll Lynch
#9. It was the purest love without purpose other than love itself. Without tenure or jealousy.
Luis Sepulveda
#10. A life without challenge, a life without hardship, a life without purpose, seems pale and pointless. With challenge come perseverance and gumption. With hardship come resilience and resolve. With purpose come strength and understanding.
Terry Fallis
#11. To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.
Lauren DeStefano
#12. He belongs to me, and I to him... without each-other, we are merely two lost pieces, empty, without purpose...
Chelsea Radojcic
#13. Books are left untouched. Fanaticism became our trait.. Now more than ever we let others feed our minds and we became the zombie society walking around without purpose, without care, without vision.
Maria
#14. The word "innovate" - to make new - used to have chiefly negative connotations: it signified excessive novelty, without purpose or end.
Anonymous
#15. Unlike information, it cannot be dispensed via blogs and Internet chatter. Since we are drowning in an ocean of information, the most precious commodity in modern society is wisdom. Without wisdom and insight, we are left to drift aimlessly and without purpose
Anonymous
#16. Tenderness between people is nothing other than awareness of the possibility of relations without purpose.
Theodor Adorno
#17. TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose.
Ambrose Bierce
#20. A thing worse than dying with nothing; is dying without purpose.
Darrius Garrett
#21. To have meaning, our lives require both passion and purpose. A life without passion is like a furnace without fuel, and without purpose, like a ship without a rudder.
Mardy Grothe
#22. To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.
Nathaniel Branden
#23. without purpose your sharp perceptions and subtle noticings are just an excuse to swim around inside your own head like a goldfish whilst the real world rages on about you. You're all vision and no purpose, in a world that demands we constantly ready ourselves not to bark, but to bite.
Troy Blackford
#24. Never act without purpose and resolve, or without the means to finish the job.
Marcus Aurelius
#25. Nothing that occurs in life is random or without purpose. Lessons were found within each event in our lives that, positive or negative, ultimately instilled a peaceful mind in us.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#26. Without Purpose, LIVING is downgraded to Breathing a boring routine of inhaling oxygen - waiting to exhale
Fela Durotoye
#27. That only having left could she and her children achieve something like sublimity, that without movement there is no struggle, and without struggle there is no purpose, and without purpose there is nothing at all. She wanted to tell every mother, every father: There is meaning in motion.
Dave Eggers
#28. Those who understand God's sovereignty have joy even in the midst of suffering, a joy reflected on their very faces, for they see that their suffering is not without purpose.
R.C. Sproul
#29. The highest benevolence acts without purpose.
Laozi
#30. You must have a definite purpose of life and a deep desire to achieve it. Without purpose, life is boring.
Debasish Mridha
#31. The kind of death you should mourn over is the one that happen when you abort your potentials prematurely! Life without purpose is a tragedy!
Israelmore Ayivor
#33. If the goal is what you want to achieve, then the purpose is why you want to achieve it. Without purpose, reaching your goal will have little or no meaning.
Lawren Leo
#34. I do not giggle without purpose. Lady Linette says you should never misapply a giggle.
Gail Carriger
#35. Above all else, He loves you and chose to measure that love out not in words, but in blood. He loves you enough to give you the greatest gift conceivable. Would such a love allow you to suffer without purpose?
David Jeremiah
#36. Activity without purpose is the drain of your life
Tony Robbins
#37. Imagining living in a universe without purpose may prepare us to better face reality head on. I cannot see that this is such a bad thing.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#39. A life without purpose is like a journey without destination.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Any revelation from God's Word that does not lead us to an encounter with God only serves to make us more religious. The Church cannot afford 'form without power,' for it creates Christians without purpose.
Bill Johnson
#41. The hard days that you face are not without purpose. They may be the very tools that the Lord wants to use in your life to bring you closer to Him, to teach you obedience, and to teach you to delight in His precious and priceless Word.
Rachel Lundy
#42. Dances without purpose have false starts and stops.
Hanya Holm
#43. Fransisco, what's the most depraved type of human being?
-The man without purpose.
Ayn Rand
#44. Passion without purpose leads to frustration.
Purpose without passion leads to procrastination.
Passion with purpose leads to success.
Valerie J. Lewis Coleman
#45. Or maybe what he fears is just the opposite: that nobody is looking; that his death, like his life, is without purpose; that there is neither greater good nor evil
only people living and dying because their bodies function and then do not; that the universe is a rip.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#46. All my life I have been surrounded by things I'd rather not know too much about, so I have come to feel that truth made naked without purpose is really a wanton.
John Wyndham
#47. No one travels without purpose. Those who are lost wish to be lost.
Gabrielle Zevin
#49. How comfortable some of us become as we nestle in the web of procrastination. It is a false haven of rest for those who are content to live without purpose, commitment, or self-discipline.
Marvin J. Ashton
#50. Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly
Aristotle.
#51. Being able to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension ... without continually asking yourself: Shall I be able to manage it? Wait patiently, as see what comes - and how it comes!
Eugen Herrigel
#52. I saw with my eyes people with and without purpose, people with the purpose know where they are going and the others follow the flow!?
Deyth Banger
#53. The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.
Arthur Young
#54. To be financially wealthy you must have a purpose for your life. In other words, without purpose, you'll never know when you have enough money, and you can never be financially wealthy.
Gary Keller
#55. When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.
Dean Koontz
#56. A heart without kindness is like a river without water.
A mind without clarity is like a dark cloudy sky.
A life without purpose is like journey without destination.
Debasish Mridha
#57. Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy
#58. The falling flakes were random and without purpose; the snow was drunker than she was.
Chuck Klosterman
#59. Without purpose and meaning in our lives, we banish ourselves to wander this plane of existence with self-destructive tendencies until the bell tolls and our breath capsizes in our lungs, snatching our chance to redeem ourselves forever.
A.J. Darkholme
#60. A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.
Emil Ruder
#61. But plausibility itself, in my view, is a tremendous step forward as we continue to marshal the courage to live meaningful lives in a universe that likely came into existence, and may fade out of existence, without purpose, and certainly without us at its center.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#63. A life without purpose is like a novel without a plot. It wanders all over the place, is hard to follow, and in the end, doesn't get particularly good reviews.
Mardy Grothe
#64. A leader without purpose, is a leader by accident
Gyan Nagpal
#65. Would you that ever find yourself walking the Road, trudging without purpose, seeking some journey's end, I give you this warning. The Road is a living being. She is an enchantress and She has a long reach.
Caiseal Mor
#67. I felt wrapped in a fog of dull pain that hurt only enough to remind me that it, too, was without purpose, and there seemed no point to going through the empty motions of breakfast, the long slow drive to work, no reason at all beyond the slavery of habit. But
Jeff Lindsay
#68. He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!
James Freeman Clarke
#69. Without purpose, the days would have ended, as such days always end, in disintegration."*
Dale Carnegie
#70. I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose.
R. J. Anderson
#71. She felt loose and free and light in a universe without purpose.
Philip Pullman
#72. Nothing happens carelessly. We're not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.
Clive Barker
#73. So I float in silence, watching the final touches of this perfect moonrise, and in a moment of heavenly revelation, it occurs to me that detours are not without purpose. They provide safe passage to a destination, avoiding pitfalls in the process.
David Arnold
#75. If you have learnt enjoying life without purpose, like a flowing river, you have learnt the art of living.
Girdhar Joshi
#76. A life without Jesus Christ is a life without purpose.
Evans Biya
#77. A man cannot love himself; he can only idolize it, and over the idol delightfully tyrannize - without purpose. The great gift which the simple idolatry of self gives is lack of further purpose
Charles Williams
#78. She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#79. The days seemed to stretch out toward infinity, blank and humid, without purpose, and at night I was kept awake by the endless drone of mosquitoes and helicopters. (Why wars must be contested under such conditions I shall never understand. Is not death sufficient?)
Tim O'Brien
#80. It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.
Confucius
#81. The flowing river nonchalantly reminds us of life: flowing relentlessly; flowing purposelessly. Life without purpose.
Girdhar Joshi
#82. Purpose stirs creativity, without purpose you life will be in abnormal use(abuse).
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#83. A mind without purpose will wander in dark places.
Unknown
#84. These days you are considered a weirdo if you live without a phone. Yet nobody cares if you live without a purpose. Anything wrong with that picture?
Ray N. Kuili
#85. If you define evolution as merely meaning change over time, then I don't see any problem with a person being a Christian and believing in evolution. But that's not how textbooks define evolution. They define evolution as being random and undirected without plan or purpose.
Lee Strobel
#86. Why in the world have we never found what we're really looking for? Because what we need is often the very thing we won't accept. And sadly, in turning away the God we need, we need to understand that we have chosen to live without everything we need.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#87. Humans find unity in chaos, purpose in war, honor in battle. It is their curse that they cannot flourish without conflict.
Lori M. Lee
#88. Give yourself the freedom to explore the possibility of life without limits. Goals are dreams with deadlines, a means to an end but not the ultimate purpose of life.
Glynis Nunn
#89. For popular purposes, at least, the aim of literary artists should be similar to that of Rubens in his landscapes, of which, without neglecting the minor traits or finishing, he was chiefly solicitous to present the leading effect, or what we may call the inspiration.
William Benton Clulow
#90. Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.
Eric Hoffer
#92. Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.
Joanna Russ
#93. They know how to work without waste of energy. In order to get the best that is within themselves, they learn to eliminate from their thoughts and actions everything which subtracts from their purposes.
Walter Russell
#94. Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.
Laurence Boldt
#95. Letters are above all useful as a means of expressing the ideal self; and no other method of communication is quite so good for this purpose. In letters we can reform without practice, beg without humiliation, snip and shape embarrassing experiences to the measure of our own desires ...
Elizabeth Hardwick
#97. So it allows me to travel, I'll be doing that and running these great rivers and doing what I've done in the past without much purpose other than for the experience.
Richard Dean Anderson
#98. It thanked her for the life she breathed into hits being; without her influence, this little being would not have been in the Garden of Glory.
H. L. Balcomb
#99. It was not battle, it was just the endless march, village to village, without
purpose, nothing won or lost. They marched for the sake of the march.
Tim O'Brien
#100. Uncharged with invisible meaning, the visible is nothing, mere clay; and without visible circumstance, a territory, to connect to, our spirit is shapeless, nameless, and undefined.
E.L. Doctorow
