Charlie Kaufman Quotes

When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think, in my whole life, I have never missed The full moon or the slipper of its coming back. Or, a kiss. Well, yes, especially a kiss.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

Forever has no meaning when you're living in the moment. I wasn't ready for that moment to end.

You have to live in these moments, not for them. If you look too hard, they blow right by you. If you do not live enough, you will regret every breath.

Photographers deal in things which are continuously vanishing.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

One day these will just be memories that I haveso I try to enjoy it as much as possible

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.

Just celebrate the life you had, not the life you could've had.

You appreciate things after you lose them.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.

That's the story of life - when you start enjoying people, it's always too late.

The older you get, the more fragile you understand life to be. I think that's good motivation for getting out of bed joyfully each day.

If you're a music fan, you think these artists will be here forever, but you should enjoy them while they're here, because you never know what will happen.

Pain can be a haunting reminder to appreciate every waking moment.

It's just a fact of life that you don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

Sometimes, you get no second chance and that its best to accept the gifts the world offers you.

The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

And her life will perhaps be the richer, for holding now within it the memory of what came, but could not stay.

Not Heav'n itself upon the past has pow'r; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.