“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.”

““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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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