Lana Del Rey Quotes

I had money, but I still didn't know what to do with my life.

I was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

I think when you are young and you don't really know what you want in life, you can commit to something and think at the time it is right.

I think it's unreasonable to expect kids at 17 to know what they want to do with the rest of their lives. And actually, I guess I had a desire to be an artist, and I did enroll in art school out of high school.

I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

I know a lot of people my age are still trying to figure out what to do, and I consider myself lucky that I can make a living doing something that I truly enjoy.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

I had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.

I was actually looking for answers where I kept asking myself - what am I doing?

I had no idea when I graduated from high school and then from graduate school what I wanted to do with my life. I had no idea that I was ever going to be an actor.

I never pondered during my struggling phase that I should have become an engineer, as I knew that was not my life. I couldn't have lived it. It would have been a very claustrophobic life.

Many people in their teens wonder about these big questions - what's the meaning of life, what are we doing here - then somewhere in their 20s, they seem to say, 'I'll just get married. I'll just have kids. I'll get back to that later.' But they never do. For me, it kept boiling.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

I haven't really had much to do with my life. All I've done is take part in it.

I went through a phase after we won the World Cup of 'what am I going to do with my life.'

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

I think that most people will spend their whole life not figuring out what they're meant to do, or figuring out what they're meant to do on their way to do something else. So I just feel lucky that I know what I love to do. Everything else figures itself out.

No matter what we're trying to accomplish in life, or what career path we're trying to take, sometimes we get caught up and lose perspective on what's important in life.

To find one's calling is perhaps not the easiest thing in the world, but probably the most important.

I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

You know, I don't think I had a concept of what I would be or do.

I had moved back to Kenya after undergrad, and I went through this crisis of, 'What is my life going to be about?'