David Schwimmer Quotes

You can't tell what's going to fulfill you in different stages in your life.

You know, you get to a certain age, 45, 50, I don't know when it happens, I said, 'Jesus, all I got is a certain amount of time. Maybe I should think about using it a little better.'

Oh, the worst of all tragedies is not to die young, but to live until I am seventy five and yet not ever truly to have lived.

I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I'm enjoying my life. I don't really live in an as extravagant a way as people think.

A man must fill his life with meaning, meaning is not automatically given to life.

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

The thing about 50 is that you've clearly reached a point where you have more of your life behind you than ahead of you, and that's a very different place to be in. You're thinking, 'I've done most of it.' I don't like that feeling. But it makes you evaluate your life and go, 'Am I doing what I want to do? Am I spending my time the way I want?'

Whatever you do, don’t wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life.

People like to warn you that by the time you reach the middle of your life, passion will begin to feel like a meal eaten long ago, which you remember with great tenderness.

You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you'd be content with yourself.

When you're at a certain point in your time - age, that is, when you're older - you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It's not grand at all, actually.

The European style of living is seductive: fewer hours worked, more hours at the cafe, less concern over self-betterment. But that style of living does not produce a purposeful life.

I don't want to be 60 years old standing on stage telling some jokes. I want my life to mean something.

By the age of 50, I would like to know that I'm not dead - that there's some continuity to my life.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what they find.

I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.

I think every guy that hits his 40s has a little bit of a wake-up call and wants to just keep things real, as they say, and just to push yourself.

There is a part of me that is not fulfilled by acting. It is a self-involved life; it can feel shallow, but not very often.

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.

The questions I'm asking myself are, 'What makes me happy? Where do I want to be? What will make me happy at 50, 60 and 70?'