“Your life is worth much more than gold.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
Jamming, from the album Exodus (1977)
Song lyrics
“But what's worth more than gold?"
"Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?”
— Terry Pratchett, book Making Money
Source: Making Money
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"Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not…" by Terry Pratchett?
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“In times of badness, gold is being worth more than beauty.”
Tad Williams (1957) novelist
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 2, Chapter 15, “A Meandering of Ink” (p. 357).
“They tell you "Time is money," as if your life was worth its weight in gold.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), When You Gonna Wake Up
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer
Pharaoh, Book X, line 688
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)
Context: Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns;
it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies,
they're disciplined troops, unconquered, to be placed in rhythm,
the mind's most mighty foe, and not disperse in air.
I'd give, believe me, a whole land for one good song,
for I know well that only words, that words alone,
like the high mountains, have no fear of age or death.
“Your skull in gold will be more valuable than others, being solid all through.”
Tim Powers book Declare
Source: Declare (2001), Chapter 12 (p. 345)
