Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on Earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up - that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.

As to each of us, the knowledge that we are here but briefly and a nonnegotiable limit is set to our expected time may even be necessary as the incentive to number our days and make them count.

Enjoy the best things in your life cuz you ain’t gonna get to live it twice.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

It's not until they tell you you're going to die soon that you realise how short life is.

Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

You only live once and you don't know it because of the everyday activities, but if you walk around knowing you only have one time on this planet, you'll make a whole lot more of it.

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

It's my life. I only got one, and it's very short. You don't get long.

Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing.

Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that.

You never know how much time you got.

For me, how I live every day is with the kind of mentality that you're never, ever guaranteed tomorrow.

You only have so much time on this planet.

You only live once, so you got to do as much as you can in the time that you have.

While we live, let us live.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

Live while ye may, Yet happy pair.

We are here just for a spell and then pass on. So get a few laughs and do the best you can. Live your life so that whenever you lose it, you are ahead.

After all - life is not a dress rehearsal!

Do not act as if you had a thousand years to live.

Screamin' 'Carpe Diem!' until I'm a Dead Poet.