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Oh! how many times we die before death! -- Jeanne Julie Eleonore de Lespinasse
Everything that happens before Death is what counts. -- Ray Bradbury
Is there life before death? - that is the question! -- Anthony de Mello
Whatever good works ye send on before [death]... ye shall find with God. -- Elijah Muhammad
Those who shun the whimsy of things will experience rigor mortis before death. -- Tom Robbins
I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give. -- Rumi
The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death. -- Rajneesh
Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us. -- Petrarch
We can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death. -- Shane Claiborne
An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope he'll arrive before death overtakes him. -- John Cage
What makes [photography] obscene is its terrible cruelty. Happiness may be fleeting, but it's the reason we go on living. Photography is the joy that precedes pain, the moment of life just before death. -- Nobuyoshi Araki
We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our gifts, in a desperation for some little understanding before death. -- May Sarton
The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it. -- Ray Bradbury
Those who put themselves in His hands will become perfect, as He is perfect- perfect in love, wisdom, joy, beauty, health, and immortality. The change will not be completed in this life, for death is an important part of the treatment. How far the change will have gone before death in any particular Christian is uncertain. -- C. S. Lewis
For even if the whole world believed in resurrection, little would change until we began to practice it. We can believe in CPR, but people will remain dead until someone breathes new life into them. And we can tell the world that there is life after death, but the world really seems to be wondering if there is life before death. -- Shane Claiborne
I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do return, living, to the world bring, inevitably, a unique point of view that is a nightmare, a treasure, and a lifelong possession.[It is] equal in its rapture and chilling exposure [to] the neighbourhood of the ancient gods and goddesses. -- Janet Frame
Death persecutes before it executes. -- Cynthia Ozick
Death always before dishonor. (Julian) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I've kissed death a thousand times before -- SZA
Capital T-truth is about life before death. -- David Foster Wallace
Saying of the ProphetDeathDie before your death. -- Idries Shah
Before my death I hope to obtain my life. -- Charles Bukowski
Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination. -- Brandon Sanderson
To Death I yield, but not to Doubt, who slays before! -- Edith M. Thomas
It was the cowards who died many times before their death. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Die before you die and find that there is no death. -- Eckhart Tolle
Alzheimer's disease is death before death, and I'm terrified of it. -- Joey Comeau
Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you. -- Rupert Brooke
After your death you will be what you were before your birth. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Live before you die, so that death is also a lively celebration. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. -- Joseph Addison
Your soul existed before your birth, your soul will exist after your death. -- Peter Adamson
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
Enlightenment, and the death which comes before it, is the primary business of Varanasi. -- Tahir Shah
To put one's career before one's personal life is like putting death before life. -- Marty Rubin
Jesus poured out his soul in life before he poured it out unto death -- Charles Spurgeon
Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else. -- Ray Bradbury
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. -- William Shakespeare
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death. -- Mary Renault
It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death. -- Mary Renault
Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death? -- Mahatma Gandhi
Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. -- Isabel Allende
What's fame? a fancy'd life in other's breath. A thing beyond us, even before our death. -- Alexander Pope
Death is, in fact, oddly pleasant, and certainly an improvement on what comes immediately before it. -- E.A.A. Wilson
Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow. -- Louis Kronenberger
Death, in its certainty, is exacting its due respect and repose before it takes my hand. -- Susan Abulhawa
Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it. -- Abu Bakr
We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend -- Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky. -- Solon
I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. -- Roger Ebert
How many more times do we have to come to terms with death before we find safety? -- Ishmael Beah
He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death. -- Henry Fielding
At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I never saw Death before, and now I seeThat it is warring eyes in a woman's form. -- Thiruvalluvar
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death. -- Irvin D. Yalom
Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it. -- Margaret Atwood
If we were sensible we would seek death--the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Never spend anything before thou have it; for borrowing is the canker and death of every man's estate. -- Walter Raleigh
I'll starve to death before I'll cook for myself. I think I could survive a week without eating. -- Megan Fox
Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death. -- Curt Schilling
Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it. -- Seneca the Younger
Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. -- Samuel Johnson
Organ donation is very personal to me. My mother, before her death, was on kidney dialysis for several years. -- John Perez
I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death. -- Joel-Peter Witkin
Let death be daily before your eyes, and you will never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything. -- Epictetus
Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death. -- Fitz-Greene Halleck
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before. -- Lucretius
The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom. -- Charles Spurgeon
All life is a rhythm, she said as I sat up. All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before liferesumes. -- Samuel R. Delany
All beings tremble before danger, all fear death. When a man considers this, he does not kill or cause to kill. -- Anonymous
Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you. -- Grace Ogot
Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other. -- Tennessee Williams
Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard. -- William Shakespeare
There is no such thing as death. We have all lived before and we are all going to experience new lives. -- Betty Shine
Do-gooding is like treating hemophilia - the real cure is to let hemophiliacs bleed to death...before they breed more hemophiliacs. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. -- Luc de Clapiers
He was the ghost you never saw coming, death breathing down your neck before you even realized you were in the crosshairs. -- Tina St. John
Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy. -- Orson Scott Card
Valek: You know a death sentence hasn't kept us apart before. Yelena: Is that an order Valek? Valek: No, it's a promise! -- Maria V. Snyder
The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it. -- Charles Spurgeon
Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. -- Elie Wiesel
Imagine how different a world might be if more leaders took time to ponder the finality of death before racing off to war. -- Dan Brown
I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death -- Tupac Shakur
As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead. -- Jeanne Moreau
It is always a matter, my darling,Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wishWhat I wished you before, but harder." -- Richard Wilbur
When you suffer a loss, there is before the death and after the death - those become your two existences and your two realities. -- Sophia Bush
Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears. -- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears. -- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse. -- George Wald
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion. -- Al Goldstein
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! -- Agnes Repplier
Death has to be waiting at the end of the ride before you truly see the earth, and feel your heart, and love the world. -- Jean Anouilh
I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies. -- Charles Bukowski
I revise and revise and revise. I'm not even sure "revise" is the right word. I work a story almost to death before it's done. -- Peter Orner
All beings tremble before violence. All love life. All fear death. See yourself in others. Then whom can you hurt? What harm can you do? -- Gautama Buddha
Men to whom wine had brought death long before lay by springs of wine and drank still, too stupefied to know their lives were past. -- Gene Wolfe
Earth recedes, Heaven opens before me. If this is death, it is sweet! There is no valley here. God is calling me, and I must go. -- Dwight L. Moody
Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death. -- Brock Yates
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II. -- Steven Spielberg
I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth. -- Shan Sa
For death and life, in ceaseless strife, Beat wild on this world's shore, And all our calm is in that balmâ?? Not lost but gone before. -- Caroline Norton
To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ã?¼ literally chosen death ã?¼ before breaking his word. -- Lisa Kleypas
Come on, Gypsy girl. I'm bleeding to death here, in case you haven't noticed. At least make it worth my while and kiss me before I die. -- Jennifer Estep
When I'm wrong I'm like the Emperor on the Death Star thinking he'll turn Luke. Yet, when I'm right I'm a Jedi like my father before me. -- Dane Cook
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour. -- Khalil Gibran
I knew the facts of death before I knew the facts of life. There never was a time when I didn't see the skull beneath the skin. -- P. D. James
I think that, when you die, you go back to where you came from before you were born. So I don't think death is a bad thing. -- David Blaine
He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life. -- Boris Pasternak
In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change. -- Swami Vivekananda
Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness. -- Orhan Pamuk
We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead. -- Albert Camus
(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born. -- Saul Bellow
The only life many of the leaders of the anti-family planning movement seem to care about -- indeed obsess about -- is life before birth and after death. -- Riane Eisler
Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face. -- Thomas Adams
I have no fear of death whatsoever. I suspect that few people do, what they all fear is what might happen in the years or months before death. -- Terry Pratchett
See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life. -- Moses

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