Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Quotes

I can't take one day for granted. That's usually how I think.

None of us can be sure of how long we will live. Because this is so, I think you should try not to think too much about dying but think about all the nice things that make life so precious to us all.

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

Above all, learn to live when you're dying.

One day all of us will die but - and this is the important thing - we are not dead yet.

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

I think that there is something beautiful about mortality. It makes our decisions mean more.

We have one life and we should cherish it and make it the best we can.

Enjoy every sandwich.

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

You can't take life for granted.

I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don't mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.

Life is short, the art long.

It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.

I'm worth more dead than alive. Don't cry for me after I'm gone; cry for me now.

Because there is no cosmic point to the life that each of us perceives on this distant bit of dust at the galaxy's edge... there is all the more reason for us to maintain in proper balance what we have here. Because there is nothing else. No thing. This is it. And quite enough, all in all.

When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.

This is our one and only chance at mortal life - here and now. The longer we live, the greater is our realization that it is brief. Opportunities come, and then they are gone. I believe that among the greatest lessons we are to learn in this short sojourn upon the earth are lessons that help us distinguish between what is important and what is not. I plead with you not to let those most important things pass you by as you plan for that illusive and non-existent future when you will have time to do all that you want to do. Instead, find joy in the journey - now.

You're just grateful for every day, grateful for every game you get to play in because you never know when it's going to be taken from you.