Life & Mortality Quote by Eddie Izzard

A one-liner that plays like a shrug and lands like a manifesto. “I wanna live ’til I die, no more, no less” is classic Eddie Izzard: deceptively simple, rhythmically casual, and quietly defiant about what counts as a full life. The joke is built on a logical impossibility - you can’t really live past death - but the punch isn’t the wordplay. It’s the way the line needles our obsession with cheating the ending.

The “no more” side jabs at fantasies of immortality, the self-help-industrial promise that there’s a hack for everything, even mortality. Izzard undercuts that with a deliberately plain ambition: just be alive while I’m alive. “No less” is the sharper edge. It’s not merely anti-immortality; it’s anti-diminishment. Don’t numb out, don’t sleepwalk, don’t trade the messy present for a safer, smaller version. The phrase turns life into a boundary you’re supposed to fill, not extend.

In context, it fits Izzard’s long-running persona: surreal, restless, allergic to the idea that there’s one approved way to exist. Coming from a comedian who’s publicly navigated identity, visibility, and reinvention, the line reads like a demand for full agency over one’s time and self. The genius is that it never preaches. It sounds like a throwaway. It’s actually a compact ethic: be here, entirely, until you’re not.