The purpose of lorem ipsum is to create a natural looking block of text (sentence, paragraph, page, etc.) that doesn’t distract from the layout. A practice not without controversy, laying out pages with meaningless filler text can be very useful when the focus is meant to be on design, not content.

Even the bitterest fruit has sugar in it.
– Terry a O’Neal

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
– Molière