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  • We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit of time in this world before death swallows us up.

    Karma   Depressing   Yoga  
  • In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing and I think those who don't have it miss one of God's mercies.

    Thinking   Europe   Long  
    Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.163, Macmillan
  • Oh! how many times we die before death!

  • It is always better to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning. For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end. Let whoever can win glory before death. When a warrior is gone, that will be his best and only bulwark.

    Mean   Warrior   Winning  
    Seamus Heaney (2009). “Beowulf”, p.10, Faber & Faber
  • 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.

    Years   People   Might  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only give up the body. If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying. If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once! Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter. And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you. To change, you have to make the effort. This world is the place to do it.

    Death   Giving Up   Liars  
  • Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child who had only two hours of oxygen left before death. And it would be the right thing to do.

    Children   Oxygen   Two  
    "Does torture work?" by Martin Robbins, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.
  • After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

    Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.268, Oxford University Press
  • I take this for myself, and you take up the thread of my life between your teeth, tin thread and tarnished with abuse, you shall still hear as long as the beast in me maintains its taciturn power to close my lids in tears, and my loins move yet in the ennobling pursuit of all the worlds you have left me alone in, and would be the dolorous distraction from, while you summon your army of anguishes which is a million hooting blood vessels on the eyes and in the ears at that instant before death.

    Moving   Eye   Army  
  • Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

    Dog   Divorce   Eight  
  • Life before Death. Strength before Weakness. Journey before Destination.

    Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.831, Macmillan
  • Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

  • A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

    Codice Trivulziano 281
  • I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.

    "'Kelly File' special: Defying the Sword". "The Kelly File," May 24, 2015, www.foxnews.com. May 26, 2015.
  • I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

    Germano Celant, Joel-Peter Witkin (1995). “Witkin”, Distributed Art Pub Incorporated
  • Alzheimer's disease is death before death, and I'm terrified of it.

    "It's Too Late to Say I'm Sorry". Book by Joey Comeau, "1e4" story, 2007.
  • The word ‘holiday’ comes from ‘holy day’ and holy means ‘exalted and worthy of complete devotion.’ By that definition, all days are holy. Life is holy. Atheists have joy every day of the year, every holy day. We have the wonder and glory of life. We have joy in the world before the lord is come. We’re not going for the promise of life after death; we’re celebrating life before death…For atheists, everything in the world is enough and every day is holy. Every day is an atheist holiday. It’s a day that we’re alive.

    Atheist   Holiday   Mean  
    Penn Jillette (2012). “Every Day Is an Atheist Holiday!: More Magical Tales from the Bestselling Author of God, No!”, p.13, Penguin
  • Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

    Isaac Asimov (1988). “Fantastic voyage II: destination brain”
  • 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 (2011). “Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition”, Wesleyan University Press
  • The Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, also Jews, heretics, and schismatics can ever be partakers of eternal life, but that they are to go into the eternal fire 'which was prepared for the devil and his angels' (Mt. 25:41) unless before death they are joined with Her... No one, let his almsgiving be as great as it may, no one, even if he pour out his blood for the Name of Christ can be saved unless they abide within the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.

    Believe   Angel   Fire  
  • The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

    "A Voice Crying In The Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.
  • 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.

    Death   Running   Pain  
    Ray Bradbury (1962). “Something wicked this way comes: a novel”, Bantam
  • Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

    Life   Death   Science  
  • Whatever good works ye send on before [death]... ye shall find with God.

  • 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 (2010). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical”, p.107, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as follows: that period before death, characterized by smooth skin and ill-formed ideas.

    Dog   Sex   Fun  
    Marilyn Suzanne Miller (2007). “How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
  • Is there life before death? - that is the question!

    Anthony De Mello (2012). “One Minute Wisdom”, p.74, Image
  • 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.

    Believe   Cpr   Practice  
    Shane Claiborne (2006). “The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical”, p.150, Harper Collins
  • The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

    Spiritual   Real   Alive  
  • 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 (1985). “To the is-land: an autobiography”, George Braziller
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