Ricky Gervais Quotes

'Ikiru' is existential but with a lot of tenderness.

What interests me is love, sex, death, cruelty, compassion and the desire for meaning in an apparently godless universe. In other words the human condition.

I really believe that 'Saw' makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we're doing here on Earth.

One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms like mysticism or religion, you can still be happy knowing you are going to die after a brief time on this spinning ball.

One must either take an interest in the human situation or else parade before the void.

If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

How can we live and die and never know the difference?

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

I personally don't live a nihilistic life, I don't have any use for it.

To be, or not to be, that is the question.

Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.

I've jokingly said that everything I'm doing now is filling up the hours before I die, but I do feel that slightly. I have no religious beliefs so this is the ride. This is it. So I'm just like anyone, I suppose, trying to fill out the days in the most interesting way possible.

If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

If you've made enough money where you're not worried about the rent or survival, you start asking yourself why you're on this planet. Your point is to do the most good you can before you die - well, I could do more good if I didn't die.

The difference between kitties and humans is that we are aware of our mortal condition, and the burden of consciousness is to evoke and embody and explore the coordinates of our condition.

What's the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die, and then it makes sense.

She is Living and I'm Dead, but I'd like to believe we're both human. Call me an idealist.

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.

What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more.

I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?

Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?