“Life is precious, fragile, fleeting - and Murphy's life was one of my favorites.”

“The Old Ones knew that life is not rare, but precious; not fragile, but vulnerable. Life is as deep as the seas in which it was born, as strong as the mountains that give it shelter, as universal as the stars themselves.”

“My favorite things in life don't cast any money.It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.”

“Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.”

“His worst nightmare had become real; life was no more than a fragile breath, a fleeting instant od light in the eternal darkness of time”

“What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.”