Randy Pausch Quotes

When suddenly your focus changes, you see the years going by and it's an extra reminder that you don't want to live life with any regrets.

Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

Mortal experiences give us the opportunity to assess what we are doing with our lives.

I love filmmaking, but I decided to go to drama school because I thought that when I'm 60 and looking back on my life, if acting hadn't been a part of it, I would hate myself.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

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

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

I never thought I'd reach 21. I used to feel that was old, but growing old doesn't scare me anymore. I just want to have done something super special and have had someone to do it with.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!

After reaching 50, I began to wonder what the root of life is.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life; fully experienced, it turns our eyes, attentive and alert, to a future possibly lived better than our past.

I think you mustn't tell your body, you mustn't tell your soul, 'I'm going to retire.' You may be changing your life emphasis, but there's still things that you have in mind to do that now seems the right time to do.

I don't think about a legacy; I think about my life, because I've had quite an unpredictable life.

Our life is our life. If we waste it, we're fools.

Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is.

I'm not a fan of small talk but if you want to get into the big questions of life - your deepest regret, your greatest joy - then we're going to have a great chat.