Mark Pellegrino Quotes

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

I would argue that nothing gives life more purpose than the realization that every moment of consciousness is a precious and fragile gift.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

We all take life for granted, one way or another.

Life is a precious gift - a gift we often take for granted until it is threatened.

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

When you see how fragile and delicate life can be, all else fades into the background.

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not.

Treasure each other in the recognition that we do not know how long we shall have each other.

When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.

I cherish every moment, because success can be taken right away from you.

What makes us really human is it's in the presence of death that we start valuing life.

I think we have gotten to a point as Americans, unfortunately, where we take for granted the magic that life brings and that life is really special and every life matters. We tend to go through life but not take the moment to step back and remember you are here, right now, for a very finite amount of time.

Death is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.

Life goes by really fast, and it seems that there are times when you're burying a lot of friends and family. And then there are times that feel really precious and everybody is doing okay. This is one of those times.

Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them.

Five years after Aerosmith got back together, I realized how fragile we are as humans. There was a time I thought we were bulletproof, but then things happened and I came to the realization that I had to play every gig as if it was my last show. You have to start thinking that way, because you never know what's going to happen next.

There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.

I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. I'm very humble.

To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.