Jenna Morasca Quotes

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

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

Americans have discovered the fragility of life, that ominous fragility that the rest of the world either already experienced or is experiencing now with terrible intensity.

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.

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

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.

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

Believe me, if a man doesn't know death, he doesn't know life.

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.

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.

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.

You've gotta know what death is to know life!

Beauty is a fragile gift.

I don't take things for granted, because everything feels more fragile. It's made me wonder about mortality and how long you've got somebody in the world. I'm more fearful than I used to be.

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.

We need to appreciate how precious life is.

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

Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.

Life is so fragile.

We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as situated in a vague and remote expanse of time; it does not occur to us that it can have any connexion with the day that has already dawned and can mean that death -- or its first assault and partial possession of us, after which it will never leave hold of us again -- may occur this very afternoon, so far from uncertain, this afternoon whose time-table, hour by hour, has been settled in advance.

All good things in life are fragile and easily lost

What I've been thinking about recently is the idea of finite and fragility. Either we're acknowledging that our lives here are finite, this moment is finite, and that this whole world is fragile, or we're not, but it is really happening and that is really true.

There is no safety this side of the grave