“Life is too precious to be left to chance”
Walter Moers The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
Source: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
2010s, 2011, Q&A with Former President George W. Bush (January 2011)
“Life is too precious to be left to chance”
Walter Moers The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
Source: The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
“Life is only precious because it ends, kid.”
Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune
Source: The Son of Neptune
“The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty.”
Yoshida Kenkō (1283–1350) japanese writer
Essays in Idleness (1967 Columbia University Press, Trns: Donald Keene)
Context: If man were never to fade away like the dews of Adashino never to vanish like the smoke over Toribeyama, but lingered on forever in the world, how things would lose their power to move us! The most precious thing in life is its uncertainty. Consider living creatures- none lives so long a man. The May fly waits not for the evening, the summer cicada knows neither spring nor autumn. What a wonderfully unhurried feeling it is to live even even a single year in perfect serenity.
Martin Bormann (1900–1945) Nazi leader and private secretary to Adolf Hitler
Quoted in "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" - Page 873 - by Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993.
“One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.”
Abraham Maslow book Motivation and Personality
Source: Motivation and Personality (1954), p. 255.
Sun Myung Moon (1920–2012) Korean religious leader
2009, As a Peace Loving Global Citizen http://www.euro-tongil.org/TFbiography.pdf