Top 100 Without Purpose Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?
John Templeton
#4. 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
#5. Humans find unity in chaos, purpose in war, honor in battle. It is their curse that they cannot flourish without conflict.
Lori M. Lee
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#10. Without meaningful work you might as well be dead.
Joanna Russ
#11. 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
#12. Without self-expression, life lacks spontaneity and joy. Without service to others, it lacks meaning and purpose.
Laurence Boldt
#13. To die trying would be better than to die without purpose.
Lauren DeStefano
#14. He belongs to me, and I to him... without each-other, we are merely two lost pieces, empty, without purpose...
Chelsea Radojcic
#15. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.
Jesse Kellerman
#22. Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.
Rebecca Solnit
#24. The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause.
Bertrand Russell
#25. Without Purpose, LIVING is downgraded to Breathing a boring routine of inhaling oxygen - waiting to exhale
Fela Durotoye
#26. Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#27. Our enthusiasm is contagious! With it, we are tuned in to a higher purpose and without it, we are just an average person.
Farshad Asl
#28. The poet's nature is all searching, creator and nourisher of desire; the poet is like the heart in a people's breast, a people without a poet is a mere heap of clay. If the purpose of poetry is the fashioning of men, poetry is likewise the heir of prophecy.
Muhammad Iqbal
#30. Without sense of direction, efforts land nowhere.
Saru Singhal
#31. 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
#32. To Be Raised Without An Earthly Father Is Never An Excuse Not To Discover Purpose
Sunday Adelaja
#33. No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
George Washington Carver
#34. Praying without faith is like trying to cut with a blunt knife - much labor expended to little purpose.
James O. Fraser
#35. You must have a definite purpose of life and a deep desire to achieve it. Without purpose, life is boring.
Debasish Mridha
#36. One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
Stephen Hawking
#37. Art without color would lose much of its purpose.
Andrew Loomis
#38. Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.
Emile Galle
#39. Your calling is in what you can do without noticing time
Sunday Adelaja
#40. The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
#41. The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#42. Grab tightly to the reigns of passion and ride into glory for without it life would be stagnant and you would be a spirit without cause.
Donna Lynn Hope
#43. Aligning your values and beliefs to your behaviour, increases your chances of being effective at living a fulfilling life without the stress of guilt-consciousness, internal strife or internal conflict
Archibald Marwizi
#44. No neighbourhood or district, no matter how well established, prestigious or well heeled and no matter how intensely populated for one purpose, can flout the necessity for spreading people through time of day without frustrating its potential for generating diversity.
Jane Jacobs
#45. A true visionary has a purpose for those without vision!
Garrett McCoy
#46. 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
#47. My burden is my purpose. Without it, I wouldn't be.
Solange Nicole
#48. Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.
Chester Himes
#49. Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented satisfaction. But the worst temptations are those we give in to without getting anything in return except for the brutal discovery of our weakness.
Paolo Maurensig
#50. I use to think being a warning was not meant to be apart of anyone's life purpose. However, how could you teach anything in life, without the deepest understanding of what not to do? Personally, I don't want someone offering advice, unless they have been to hell and back with a map and a compass.
Shannon L. Alder
#51. The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive the light, there must have been light to enter it.
Louis Agassiz
#52. Reading. I can get lost in a world and spend days there. Besides, reading a book gives me a goal. It's that sense of purpose that puts a temporary bandage over my uncertainty and lets me waste away the rest of the day without anymore negative thoughts.
C.M. Stunich
#53. Fulfilling your destiny is like going on an errand assignment. You must run it to make it meaningful. You don't become who you should become when you remain passionlessly without taking actions.
Israelmore Ayivor
#54. Regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it" (Colossians 3:14).
Stephen W. Smith
#55. You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you.
Fennel Hudson
#56. No business can be a great success without a great purpose.
Debasish Mridha
#57. We are all capable of greatness when we know without any doubt that we are directly connected to a higher purpose.
Andrew Cohen
#58. People who claim they are motivated by the Purpose end up behaving differently - and generally better - than people who serve other masters." "So it is like believing in God." "Maybe yes. But without the theology, the scripture, the pigheaded certainty.
Neal Stephenson
#60. Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.
Ricardo Semler
#61. I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is, as far as I can tell. Possibly. It doesn't frighten me.
Richard Feynman
#62. I don't miss my father, but without his shackles to strain against, the world is terrifying and vast. I have lost a kind of purpose, a reason to prove myself.
Chris Offutt
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.
John F. Kennedy
#67. Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.
J.G. Holland
#68. The falling flakes were random and without purpose; the snow was drunker than she was.
Chuck Klosterman
#69. Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to become.
Suzy Kassem
#70. Surely there were others like me, born without an inkling of direction. The wanderers, the amblers, the dabblers, united by our purposeless mantra-I have no idea what to do with my life.
Suzanne Selfors
#71. A printed work, which cannot be read, becomes a product without purpose.
Emil Ruder
#72. I will rather work without being paid to fulfill my divine purpose.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#73. It is not without pleasure that i can tell my majestic colleagues who write for humanity, and in the name of humanity, that i have never written a single word other than for a selfish purpose; but at, each time, the work betrayed me and escaped from me
Witold Gombrowicz
#74. 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
#75. 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
#77. Whether you are a medical doctor or a chiropractor or another type of healer, life has a challenge that you have to be egoless. You have to just become, without self, a healer at that moment, for that purpose.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#78. But I believe that even without the consideration of his family he would find it impossible to live abroad. He would be a man without a purpose; for his purpose, his vocation, is Egypt.
Ahdaf Soueif
#79. Facts without context are like individuals without society. Just as an individual must find his or her place in society or else they are useless, a fact must find its place in an argument or else it serves no true purpose.
Tom King
#80. There is nothing wrong with duality as long as it does not create conflict. Multiplicity and variety without strife is joy. In pure consciousness there is light. For warmth, contact is needed. Above the unity of being is the union of love. Love is the purpose of duality.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#81. You can and should stand up for who you are and what you represent, without fear or prejudice. You take the promises you have made to yourself and to others very seriously.
Archibald Marwizi
#82. Nature creates nothing without a purpose.
Aristotle.
#83. Hitler doesn't stir up hatred without a purpose.
Ken Follett
#85. Walked without a destination. Explored without a purpose.
Gemma Burgess
#86. That was the true purpose of Slough House. It was a way of losing people without having to get rid of them, sidestepping legal hassle and tribunal threats.
Mick Herron
#87. I know I could never forgive myself if I elected to live without humane purpose, without trying to help the poor and unfortunate, without recognizing that perhaps the purest joy in life comes with trying to help others.
Arthur Ashe
#88. Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.
Herbie Hancock
#90. The world may or may not be with our purpose. But its not totally without some kind of magic
[Magic in the moonlight movie - by Woody Allen]
Woody Allen
#91. I just want to be me - I just want to be useful and ... content. I want to stop
wondering if I'll ever feel whole and just be whole. I want to have a purpose one that I can look at without feeling like I'm less than I was.
Eilis O'Neal
#92. Fortunate is the person who has developed the self-control to steer a straight course towards his objectives in life, without being swayed from his purpose by either commendation or condemnation.
Napoleon Hill
#93. 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
#94. Don't choose a profession you can live with;
choose a profession you can't live without.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#95. The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose.
Ayn Rand
#96. It is better to experience temporary discomfort to achieve the dream, than permanent comfort without any fulfillment.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#97. Communication without a purpose is artistic masturbation.
Rod Steiger
#98. It is better not to proceed at all than to proceed without purpose.
Confucius
#99. A mind without purpose will wander in dark places.
Unknown
#100. He establishes every purpose by counsel (Prov. 20:18). God, indeed, uses carnal men to very good service, but without a thorough altering and conviction of their judgment. He works by them, but not in them. Therefore they do neither approve the good they do nor hate the evil they abstain from.
Richard Sibbes
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