Purpose Loss Quotes

You go from being with the guys all the time in the locker room, in practice, having a militarized brain in terms of this schedule, and then, all of a sudden, you are on your own. You lose a sense of purpose; you lose a sense of yourself. And you lose confidence. You find yourself saying, 'I was the best at this, and now I'm not the best.'

A jester unemployed is nobodys fool.

When you lose work, the meaning and purpose of life are taken away from you, and isolation can set in.

If I can't work, I don't know what to do with myself.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

You forget why you're fighting - you can lose sight of why you're doing it all.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a purpose.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don't read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.

Without work, so much of one's identity just evaporates.

I've been in the revenge buisness for so long, now that it's over I don't know what to do with the rest of my life.

Try to imagine a character like Batman whose whole life has been about fighting crime, whose whole existence and identity is his war against criminals, and he wakes up one morning to discover there are no criminals. What happens to him?

Without a vision people and the church become self-centered. People start finding fault with one another and the church self-destructs.

The technologist was the final guise of the white missionary, industrialization the last gospel of a dying race and living standards a substitute for a purpose in living.

In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

Without God, all of our efforts turn to ashes and our sunrise into the darkest of nights.

Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.

After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.

There is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

If you lose your purpose ... it's like you're broken.

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the organization than to what they're organized for.

I always have an adjustment period where I'm so happy to be home, but then my sense of purpose is totally gone.

One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected to their purpose in life.

I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us.