Reason for Existence Quotes

For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance.

Why are we here? I think many people assume, wrongly, that a company exists solely to make money. Money is an important part of a company's existence, if the company is any good. But a result is not a cause. We have to go deeper and find the real reason for our being.

Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

It's what I was born for, isn't it? If I don't go, why am I alive?

We start dying when we have nothing worth living for. And we don't really start living until we find something worth dying for

-Why does a man live? -In order to think about it.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.

Yes, worship of the loving God is man's whole reason for existence.

it seems a silly kind o' business to bring us into the world at all for no special reason 'cept to take us out of it again just as folks 'ave learned to know us a bit and find us useful.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why.

Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.