Dinaw Mengestu Quotes

My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.

Everything has to have some kind of a point for people to breathe easy. What's the point of life? I have no clue, but sometimes there are things that just attract us and pull us in a certain way.

For a while now I've had this feeling that there's something that I'm supposed to be doing or something that I'm supposed to contribute. I don't know what that is yet, but it's been plaguing me - like I've missed my calling somehow.

I don't think I've decided much in my life. Don't you think life just happens?

I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.

Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?

What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.

Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?

You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Maybe life is random, but I doubt it.

Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaning.

I have a calling in my soul, if you like, to try to make my life in some way worthwhile. What is the value of my existence?

Not knowing whom to fall in love with is like not knowing which film to make next. Life is pretty chaotic; it's just an illusion that one has control over one's life.

As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.

I don't know if I was put on this Earth for a purpose or not. But I'm fairly confident that I'll be taken off of it for one.