“Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest.”

“No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.”

Jeremy Clarkson (1960) English broadcaster, journalist and writer

“The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

“Throw not my words away, as many do;
They're gold in value, though they're cheap to you.”

John Clare (1793–1864) English poet

“Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things… as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

“Life has a value only when it has something valuable as its object.”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel book Lectures on the Philosophy of History

“There is nothing to life that has value, except the degree of power—assuming that life itself is the will to power.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Will to Power

“Your value is not determined by your valuables, and God says the most valuable things in life are not things!”

Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader