„Oh child that didst despise thy life so muchWhen it seemed only thine to keep or lose,How the fine ear felt fall the first low word”Value life, and preserve life for My sake!”“

— Robert Browning

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„And having in thy life-depth thrownBeing and suffering (which are one),As a child drops his pebble smallDown some deep well, and hears it fallSmiling — so I. THY DAYS GO ON.“
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
„Love all, trust a few,Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemyRather in power than use; and keep thy friendUnder thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,But never tax'd for speech.“
— William Shakespeare
„Turn thy thoughts now to the consideration of thy life, thy life as a child, as a youth, thy manhood, thy old age, for in these also every change was a death. Is this anything to fear?“
— Marcus Aurelius
„Let it be a dream, so be it, but that real life of which you make so much I had meant to extinguish by suicide, and my dream, my dream — oh, it revealed to me a different life, renewed, grand and full of power!“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky