Purposelessness Quotes

• People haunted by the purposelessness of their lives try to find a new content not only by dedicating themselves to a holy cause but also by nursing a fanatical grievance. A mass movement offers them unlimited opportunities for both.

  Eric Hoffer

  Nursing, Opportunity, People

  Eric Hoffer (1980). "El verdadero creyente"

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• La falta de propósito es la madre fecunda del crimen.

  Charles Henry Parkhurst

  Mother, Prison, Crime

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• A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society.

  Theodore Kaczynski

  Escritura, Gente, Mitad

  The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.28, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• El odio apasionado puede dar sentido y propósito a una vida vacía.

  Eric Hoffer

  Vida, Odio, Dar

  Eric Hoffer (1951). "El verdadero creyente: Reflexiones sobre la naturaleza de los movimientos de masas", New York : Harper

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• La mayor tragedia de la vida no es la muerte, sino una vida sin propósito.

  Myles Munroe

  Relationship, Life And Death, Tragedy

  Myles Munroe (2010). "Principios del Reino: Preparing for Kingdom Experience and Expansion", p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Un universo sin propósito no debería deprimirnos ni sugerir que nuestras vidas carecen de propósito. A través de una asombrosa historia cósmica nos encontramos en este remoto planeta, en un remoto rincón del universo, dotados de inteligencia y autoconciencia. No debemos desesperar, sino alegrarnos humildemente de aprovechar al máximo estos dones y celebrar nuestro breve momento bajo el sol.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Deprimente, Humilde, Yo

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• Si has construido castillos en el aire, tu trabajo no tiene por qué perderse; ahí es donde deben estar. Ahora pon los cimientos debajo de ellos.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiración, Vida, Motivación

  Walden cap. 18 (1854)

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• The man without a purpose is a man who drifts at the mercy of random feelings or unidentified urges and is capable of any evil, because he is totally out of control of his own life. In order to be in control of your life, you have to have a purpose-a productive purpose.

  Ayn Rand

  Life, Men, Order

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.404, Penguin

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• Eso es todo lo que quiero en la vida: que este dolor parezca tener un propósito.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Depression, Pain, Being Sad

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). "Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America", p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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• Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.

  Guillermo Maldonado

  Life, Happy, Loneliness

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• I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, nonreligious man, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the dimension of the divine; the impenetrable omnipotence of bureaucracy harbors is divine enjoyment. It is the performance of its very purposelessness that generates an intense enjoyment, ready to reproduce itself forever.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Men, Thinking, Omnipotence

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• A great purposelessness has descended upon modern civilizations. People at large have lost any sense of the meaning and purpose of life; and without an understanding of our own purpose, there can be no true commitment. Whether that commitment is to marriage, family, study, work, God, relationships, or the simple resolutions of our lives, it will be almost impossible to fulfill without a clear and practical understanding of our purpose. Commitment and purpose go hand in hand.

  Matthew Kelly

  Commitment, Simple, Hands

  Matthew Kelly (2015). “The Rhythm of Life: Living Everyday With Passion and Purpose”, p.27, BookBaby

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• If we have nothing to do but service our own pleasure - because society has taught us that's all we're worth and we're exiled from positions of authority from which we could actually shape society - then we just become hedonists. Eventually, despite how great it may look on Saturday night, come Monday morning there's just purposelessness.

  Clive Barker

  Monday, Morning, Night

  "Lord of ILLUSION". Interview with Charles lsherwood, www.clivebarker.com. February 21, 1995.

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• This siren, this goat-footed bard, this half human visitor to our age the hag-ridden and enchanted woods of Celtic antiquity. One catches in his company that flavour of final purposelessness, inner responsibility, existence outside or away from our Saxon good and evil, mixed with cunning, remorselessness, love of power.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Responsibility, Evil, Age

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• I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though I do not know "what it is." Or even if it is an "it." Not to be foolish and multiply words, I'll say simply that it seems to me that Zen is the very atmosphere of the Gospels, and the Gospels are bursting with it. It is the proper climate for any monk, no matter what kind of monk he may be. If I could not breathe Zen I would probably die of spiritual asphyxiation.

  Thomas Merton

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Atmosphere

  Thomas Merton (1988). “Encounter: Thomas Merton & D.T. Suzuki”

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• This desert town was man's own miracle of pure purposelessness.

  Jane Rule

  Men, Las Vegas, Miracle

  Jane Rule (2013). “Desert of the Heart: A Novel”, p.223, Open Road Media

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• Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Real, Rigor Mortis, Waiting Rooms

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). "ARQUITECTURA, ¿ALGUIEN?", Random House

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