Preciousness of Life Quotes

Nothing is worth more than this day.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!

I believe life is precious; I believe that to the marrow of my bones.

Pain can be a haunting reminder to appreciate every waking moment.

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.

As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious

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

Our lives are unique stones in the mosaic of human existence -- priceless and irreplaceable.

Believe me, I go and go, 'cause I know how short life is, and I know how very blessed all of us are to be here and how very short it is.

Death gives meaning to our lives. It gives importance and value to time. Time would become meaningless if there were too much of it.

Life matters more than any painting, novel, film, or great big diamond.

Death is not the enemy of life, but its friend, for it is the knowledge that our years are limited which makes them so precious. It is the truth that time is but lent to us which makes us, at our best, look upon our years as a trust handed into our temporary keeping.

You never know how much time you have left.

I learned more of how to appreciate what I had then - my family, my kids, the talent that God gives you - because He can take it away at any time. He took it away from Brian through death. He took it away from me through my knees.

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.

We get these lives for free. I didn't do anything to get this life, and no matter what the hardships are, it is free and, in a way, it's an extraordinary bargain.

The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.

I'm thankful for my family's health, that everybody's healthy. That's something that can be taken for granted, so I'm grateful for that.

Every life is precious.

It's strange. There's your life. You begin it, feeling that it's something so precious and rare, so beautiful that it's like a sacred treasure. Now it's over, and it doesn't make any difference to anyone, and it isn't that they are indifferent, it's just that they don't know, they don't know what it means, that treasure of mine, and there's something about it that they should understand. I don't understand it myself, but there's something that should be understood by all of us. Only what is it? What?

Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.

Death isn't a funny thing. We're all lucky to be living.

The reality is if you were going to die tomorrow, and someone offered you another 10 years, most people would take those 10 years.