Stephen Fry Quotes

There was some expiration point to my life, and it became very important to maximize the time that I did have on Earth. That's what led me to my personal philosophy: "No Opportunity Wasted" - NOW for short, which is about living life to the fullest.

You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

I think seizing the opportunity and making the most of your time is very important, and loving life.

I'm not one of these people who likes to do as little as possible. I really do feel the hot breath of time on the back of my neck these days. And there are certain things I want to do before my time is up.

Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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.

If you're going to be alive and on this planet, you have to, like, suck the marrow out of every day and get the most out of it.

Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.

This whole thing about, 'Take it easy, you had a heart attack, you might die,' I don't have time to take it easy. I might go at any point now. So, I want to get as much done as I can!

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

I'm going to take full advantage of whatever time I've got on this earth. I'm going to get my money's worth. You can bet your butt on that.

I think people try to make the most of their time on Earth and also to 'fix' their time on Earth.

Life is too short to sit around doing nothing.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

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.

The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Anyone who's lived their life to the fullest extent has a scandal buried somewhere.

You can't rush the miles. No matter how fast I run, the five miles isn't going to be done in the first five minutes.

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.