“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”

“How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?”

James Lee Burke (1936) Novelist, short story writer

“(…)while it's true that the unexamined life is not worth living, it's also true that the unlived life isn't worth examining.”

Robert McKee (1941) American academic specialised in seminars for screenwriters

“We try to pay a man what he is worth and we are not inclined to keep a man who is not worth more than the minimum wage.”

Henry Ford (1863–1947) American industrialist

“Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“There was a man once who said that mothers carry the key of our souls with them all our lives. But you threw mine away”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

“While men are what they are; while they have bad
Passions to be roused up: while ruled by men;
While all the powers and treasures of a land
At beck of the ambitious, wrongs may be
Offered, with insult; yea, while rights are worth
Maintaining; freedom keeping, or life having,
So long dread I, the sword shall shine.”

Philip James Bailey Festus

“It is easy enough to be pleasant,
When life flows by like a song,
But the man worth while is one who will smile,
When everything goes dead wrong.”

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850–1919) American author and poet

“For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.”

Thomas à Kempis (1380–1471) German canon regular

“To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.”

Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …