Randy Pausch Quotes

I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.

I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.

A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do.

I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

Take every opportunity that comes your way and most importantly have fun with it.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?

You can either waste time worrying about a death that might not come or concentrate on what’s left to you.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.

I'm dying, and I'm having fun.

I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same.

When you see someone at 6 in the morning with a smile on their face, you know they're having fun.

I don't mind aging - I'm glad to be aging. I'll never die young.

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

Remember you must die whether you sit about moping all day long or whether on feast days you stretch out in a green field, happy with a bottle of Falernian from your innermost cellar.

Never underestimate the importance of having fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun. And I'm going to keep having fun every day because there's no other way to play it.

Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.

All I have to do is just enjoy my moment and have fun.

Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapped power.

Don’t you want to be alive before you die?

As the seconds of our lives are ticking away, you have to realize that life needs to be an adventure.

I know my time will come soon enough, but I will not dwell on it. What is the purpose? We might as well dwell on the work of our teeth or on the mechanics of our walk. It is there, it will always be there, and I don't intend to spend my glorious hours looking over my shoulder to see death's icy face.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

I'd rather die while I'm living then live while I'm dead.