Garth Risk Hallberg Quotes

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

You appreciate things after you lose them.

When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.

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

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.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

We do not realize what we have on Earth until we leave it.

I hope maybe 'The Returned,' in some small way, can contribute to the argument of the poignancy of human life and make people not take for granted things.

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.

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

We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.

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.

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.

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

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

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

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

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

We don't realize how much we need something until it's taken away from us.

If I've learned anything, it's that you can't take anything for granted.

'The Duffler' is a very familiar story, a story about someone having something and not appreciating it until it's gone, when it's too late.

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.

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have

What made something precious? Losing it and finding it.