Variant: When You've lost it all.... thats when you realize that Life is Beautiful.
Source: The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star
1970's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970 - 1972)
“Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor.”
Source: Night Film
Variant: Until you 've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
Source: Gone with the Wind
“You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.”
Source: The Portrait of a Lady
“Nothing at all is lost
When life has clear purpose.”
"When You Have Purpose", as quoted in Understanding Vietnam by Neil Jamieson (University of California Press, 1995), p. 267, and in Renovating Politics in Contemporary Vietnam by Zachary Abuza (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001), p. 58
“Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.”
Source: The Black Obelisk
“Shackle your mind when you bend on the cross,
When ignorance reigns life is lost.”
Township Rebellion.
Song lyrics, Rage Against the Machine (1992)
