Brandon Lee Quotes

You appreciate things after you lose them.

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 think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

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

What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.

Once you've stared death in the face, every day is a good day.

Watching someone that you love, you think they have a certain amount of time left to live, changed everything for me. And tennis seemed not so important anymore.

Every time something is taken away, you're forced to take a step back and realize how much that thing means to you. You don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

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

A weird side effect of being in close proximity to death is an urgency.

It's just a fact of life that you don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

I guess it's about getting older. I know that I'm going to lose people that I love - I'm going to die myself - so everything seems to be getting somehow sweet and more important and more special and more humbling and more challenging and more terrifying all at the same time.

You may think life is sweet now, but when death is a heartbeat away then life becomes unbearably desirable. And when you survive, everything you do will be enhanced and filled with greater joy: the sunlight, the breeze, a good wine, a woman's lips, a child's laughter.

The whole message of the piece was that possessions are transient. You don't know if you are going to be able to have time with somebody, so you better be careful.

We never discover the value of things till we have lost them.

There is an hour when you realize: here is what you have been given. More than this, you won't receive. And what this is, what your life has come to, will be taken from you. In time.

If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?

Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

sometimes we do not realize how much we have to be grateful for until it is threatened.

Don't take anything for granted, because tomorrow is not promised to any of us.

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.