“Is a person worth more because they have someone to grieve for them?”

“We are worth more when someone looks at us. And, because of this, an eye is always watching us.”

Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist

“Many feminists have been grieved or aggrieved by The Left Hand of Darkness because the androgynes in it are called ‘he’ throughout. In the third person singular, the English generic pronoun is the same as the masculine pronoun. A fact worth reflecting upon. And it’s a trap, with no way out, because the exclusion of the feminine (she) and the neuter (it) from the generic/masculine (he) makes the use of either of them more specific, more unjust, as it were, than the use of ‘he.’ And I find made-up pronouns, ‘te’ and ‘heshe’ and so on, dreary and annoying.”

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer

“Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“To love someone is to show to them their beauty, their worth and their importance.”

Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian

“If no one is home, then someone is missing. So you grieve.”

Wally Lamb (1950) american novelist

“"No boy is worth your teenage years!." "For me to be in love with someone means that I have to accept who I am, and not allow another person to define me. And if someone loves me in spite of all that, then that's a start."”

Hayley Williams (1988) American singer-songwriter and musician

“She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

“He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?”

Madeline Miller book The Song of Achilles

“The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for-and dying for, if need be-is the opportunity of making someone else more happy.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor