Karl Pilkington Quotes

I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

I'm kind of one of these guys who wants to play everything once before it's all over.

When you're in your 40s, you become more conscious of life being of limited duration and that you need to create memories and go on little adventures from time to time.

I love the other side of life, I like to do what interests me. People talk about bucket lists - I hate that. You might as well call it the coffin list.

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.

We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully.

I'm gonna live till I die.

I really have this sense that time is passing, and it's important to do what you have wanted to do.

Have you ever thought about those last moments of your life? Nobody wants a long, lingering illness; nobody wants just that; but it would be nice if you could have a day or two where you know it's coming.

Every man dies. Not every man lives.

What's really important in life? Sitting on a beach? Looking at television eight hours a day? I think we have to appreciate that we're alive for only a limited period of time, and we'll spend most of our lives working.

I don't know how to not have fun. I'm dying and I'm having fun, and I'm going to keep having fun every day I've got left.

Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

You live till you die, and that's the end of it. What good is your legacy when you are dead? I worry about being alive, selling work, having fun, moving and doing things when I am alive.

I think the idea is when you're on your death bed to say you did a lot of different, interesting things, not just that you have a more expensive lining in your coffin.

Given six months to live and being the fighter that I am, I set high goals for myself.

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

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

I know that one day I'm going to die. I want to accomplish as much as I can before I do.

I'm going to be 50 in 2018 and I figure that I should try to get as much in before then. After 50, you never know what might happen.

I'm moving on in years, but I tell you I still want to kick the devil before I kick the bucket.

Whether by a Mack truck or by heart failure or faulty lungs, death happens. But life isn't really just about avoiding death, is it? It's about living.

Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy?