Harrison Birtwistle Quotes

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

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!

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

I act as if my life depends on each decision. Because it does.

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out to be an example for people on how to live their lives. If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn't have been born. Straight up.

What we have, what we wish we had - ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost - these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

I just want people to admit that there's no one way to live your life.

Living is like working out a long addition sum, and if you make a mistake in the first two totals you will never find the right answer. It means involving oneself in a complicated chain of circumstances.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

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

The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.

It is nothing.

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

I'm born, and I die, but in between that, I can do whatever I want or have a strong opinion about something.

I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second.

I think the last thing you want in life is to live with regret.

At the end of the day, you go through different paths in the league. I wouldn't change anything about it.

In the end, everybody's life's different. Some things fit certain ways for people, and it's right, and maybe it isn't for others.

You need to think and live your life. You only live once. That's how it is.

The fact that I've lived this long is not really an achievement. Time passes; we age... it's natural. This is why it annoys me when a person watches a movie and tells me that it was 'time pass.' Would time not have passed if he hadn't watched the film?

Pictures of entire lives, of the choices that people make and how those choices work out for them, those pictures are almost impossible to get.