Price Quotes

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“..time is always the price we pay for the unlived life.”
― André Aciman, Find Me

“And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.”
― Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

“I've solved the mystery: You have to submit silently. Open up, let go. Let anything penetrate you, even the most painful things. Endure. Bear up. That's the magic key! The text comes by itself, and its meaning shakes the soul ... You mustn't let scar tissue form on your wounds; you have to keep ripping them open in order to turn your insides into a marvelous instrument that is capable of anything. All this has its price.”
― Klaus Kinski

“In the fashion industry, everything goes retro except the prices.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“Value is more expensive than price.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“If she had touched me," he said very softly, "I would have been hers and not my own, not ever again. I wanted her to touch me but I could not let her. No cat will. We let human beings caress us because it is pleasant enough and calms them - but not her. The price is more than a cat can pay.”
― Peter S. Beagle

“I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one...”
― Henry Ford, My Life And Work

“Peter's face clouded. "Everything comes at a price. Or have you not learned that yet?”
― Brom, The Child Thief

“but remember, nothing comes without a price. Our paths are not mapped; they’re made.”
― Priya Ardis, Ever My Merlin

“Price of peace could only be valued by
people who had suffered loss in the war.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But what is freedom, if there is no truth? And what is truth, if there is no freedom? Both are worth fighting for — because one without the other would be hell.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Price ain't merely about numbers. It's a satisfying sacrifice.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“As in most fairy tales, there's a prince and a princess, dragons and some magic, and the feeling it gives you that anything is possible if we could stay this way forever.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading

“We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.”
― H. Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure

“If I were going to put a price tag on my lady parts, I’d find a more appetizing buyer.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Call Me Irresistible

“So much the better. The higher the price you have to pay, the more you will cherish it.”
― Lloyd C. Douglas, The Robe

“It is not in our hands to prevent the murder of workers… and families… but it is in our hands to fix a high price for our blood, so high that the Arab community and the Arab military forces will not be willing to pay it.”
― Moshe Dayan

“Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning.”
― José Saramago

“The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.”
― Leah Hager Cohen, Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things

“The idea of luxury, even the word "luxury," was important to Arabella. Luxury meant something that was by definition overpriced, but was so nice, so lovely, in itself that you did not mind, in fact was so lovely that the expensiveness became part of the point, part of the distinction between the people who could not afford a thing and the select few who not only could, but also understood the desirability of paying so much for it. Arabella knew that there were thoughtlessly rich people who could afford everything; she didn't see herself as one of them but instead as one of an elite who both knew what money meant and could afford the things they wanted; and the knowledge of what money meant gave the drama of high prices a special piquancy. She loved expensive things because she knew what their expensiveness meant. She had a complete understanding of the signifiers.”
― John Lanchester, Capital

“I fake fake to have a fake life. Does that make me a real horse? Buy now for $777, wooden saddle sold separately. Real horseshoes not included. Imaginary ones – neither.”
― Will Advise, Nothing is here...

“No, the majority of people just survive, they think their things have a value but nothing does. Things only have a price, based on expectation, and I do business with that. The only thing of value on Earth is time. One second will always be a second, there’s no negotiating with that.”
― Fredrik Backman, The Deal of a Lifetime

“Let's just go in and enjoy ourselves,' Yvonne had said after a long moment when the Hitchens family had silently reviewed the menu—actually of the prices not the courses—outside a restaurant on our first and only visit to Paris. I knew at once that the odds against enjoyment had shortened (or is it lengthened? I never remember).”
― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir

“One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world.”
― Malala Yousafzai

“I know my price, I am worth no worse a place.”
― William Shakespeare, Othello

“There is a price to pay for what you wish to possess.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I whispered to the lurking dark behind me, 'What is your price?'
...
Company. Send me company.

I opened my mouth, but them said, 'To- eat?'

A laugh that made my skin crawl. To tell me of life.
...
'It's a bargain,' I breathed. The skin along my left forearm tingled. The thing behind me... I could have sworn I felt it smile.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“Everything has a price; the only question is how big.”
― Paul A. Offit, Pandora's Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong

“And he said...

...not all restaurants serve the same food and never for the same price.”
― Anthony T. Hincks