Elizabeth Edwards Quotes

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

When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

None of us can be sure of how long we will live. Because this is so, I think you should try not to think too much about dying but think about all the nice things that make life so precious to us all.

It's a lot harder to find fault with the mundane details of daily existence when you really, really know on a cellular level that you're going to go, and that this moment, right now, is life. Life isn't what happens to you in 20 years. This moment, right now, is your life.

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

I think life is precious from beginning to end.

Nobody lives forever and I've had a blessed life.

I think I'm very conscientious of how precious life is and how quickly life can be taken away from you, especially at times when it can be least expected.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

There's something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious.

It's more enjoyable for me to know that life is finite. Knowing that, I would like to go to a party. When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there every day.

Above all, learn to live when you're dying.

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

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

We don't ever realize how precious life is while we're living it.

Life is so fragile; you have to treasure it.

The ideal is to live forever, right? Or to live right now and just be grateful that I feel good. I'm definitely grateful for every second that I'm alive. At this point in my life, I definitely take time out throughout the day to just stop and be like, "Everything is cool." It's as good as it's gonna be, because it only gets worse.

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

Take good care of yourself. Your life can be gone in a split second.

My age makes me think how valuable life is. How bad is something like Parkinson's in relation to not having life at all?

We just have to recognize life for what it is: a gift to be grateful for, not a property to cling to, hoard, or defend.