Kristen Wiig Quotes

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'

We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

I'm going to a special place when I die, but I want to make sure my life is special while I'm here.

Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?

The nearer I come to the end of my days, the more I am enabled to see that strange thing, a life, and to see it whole.

Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.

I've been running from, and toward, death all my life, more aware of it than a person should be.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.

There are more truths in twenty-four hours of a man's life than in all the philosophies.

When I'm on my deathbed, I'll hopefully be able to count more friends than parts that I had.

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel.

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

As a life's work, I would remember everything - everything, against loss. I would go through life like a plankton net.

At the end of our lives we all ask, 'Did I live? Did I love? Did I matter?'

One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.

On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did.

When I am on my deathbed, I don't think I will be thinking about a nice pair of shoes I had or my beautiful house. I am going to be thinking about an evening I spent with somebody when I was twenty where I felt that I was just absolutely connected to them.

I suppose there are times when I can't believe that I've lived the way that I have and done the things that I've done. Life's a joke anyway. It's all ridiculous. It's all so short.

On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'

As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.

When you see a parent pass, and you literally are there, and you're sitting at that deathbed, man, and you have to tell them to go, it defines life for what it really is.

I always think about life, and I think that we are here with a mission, and once we have done our mission, we go somewhere else.

I struggle with how humankind ended up this way. We made ourselves slaves to money, and we all have to work and be a part of this thing when time is always ticking. And before we know it, a decade has gone by, and did I really get to do everything I wanted to do or say everything I wanted to say?