“It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death for free.”

“Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.”

Irving Stone book The Agony and the Ecstasy

““It is not right to want to die,” the Summoner said….“For the very old, the very ill, it may be. But life is given us. Surely it’s wrong not to hold and treasure that great gift!”
“Death also is given us,” said the king.”

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

“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.”

Philip Roth (1933–2018) American novelist

“Honesty is a very expensive gift, Don't expect it from cheap people.”

Warren Buffett (1930) American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

“How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

“Now it is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it…”

W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer

“And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.”

Madeleine L'Engle A Ring of Endless Light

“You can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

“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