Kevin McCloud Quotes

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

You reach a point at which you have to view your life through the things you've spent so much time doing. The alternative is a perilous feeling of waste.

Our lives can't be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.

I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.

I guess I worry about weird existential things, like how do we spend our final act. This is a very emotional question. I can't answer it without crying. I think, You're 56 years old, what did you do? You raised two good kids. What am I going to do now that is as meaningful as that? I don't know the answer yet.

It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you're dead, and I'm going to say that's got to be a letdown.

Do Not Waste Your Life Lightly

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

I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

Whoever we are, we have to carve something out of our lives. I would like to be on my deathbed going, 'I've enjoyed that. I went through the rollercoaster of it, but I've appreciated it.'

There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.

Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

In a lifetime, you can say, yes, you have instances of pleasure, of happiness, you like some of your work, but your work is the entire story, and if you are not satisfied with a few moments of a few parts of that story, you would like to be able to adjust that.

If that had been my only purpose in life - to call home runs and touchdowns - I'd lead a pretty shallow life.

I believe you must enjoy every phase of your life.

Death is Inevitable. Living a life we can be proud of is something we can control.

I'm not searching for the meaning of life, but I'm looking for a meaning within my life.

When suddenly your focus changes, you see the years going by and it's an extra reminder that you don't want to live life with any regrets.

We have a lot of depressed people in the world because they don't know what their purpose is in life.

There is no such thing as an optimum life.