Joy Page Quotes

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life.

'How much longer will I live?'... Only one thing seems clear to me. Every day should be well-lived. What a simple truth! Still, it is worthy of my attention.

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now.

Age gives you a feeling that you don't have forever to win.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

I try to make the best of the opportunities that have been given to me.

What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.

I feel like you only have so much time to make stuff. I'm definitely aware of that. I'm also excited about it.

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

There are no second acts in American lives.

I never think of yesterday. Can't do anything about it. I'm a positive guy. When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.

Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

You can't put off being young until you retire.

Woody Allen has a wonderful line: 'Today I'm a star. What will I be tomorrow? A black hole?' That's very important to know - that you have the moment, then you lose the moment. You have to see your chances, you have to take them, and you also have to see when you don't have chances to take.

I think that the problem is that people fear so many things and they don't live life to its fullest. And for me as an artist, if God should want me to come this Wednesday to the end of my life, so be it.

One of the things I noticed is that people really change when they realize their expiration date is coming, and they know what it is. Most of us don't: we just hope we can live as long as we can and do as much good as we can.

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.