Top 100 Death Before Life Quotes

#1. All life is a rhythm," she said as I sat up. "All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life
resumes.

Samuel R. Delany

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#2. For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#3. How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

Stephen Levine

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#4. As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we're really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

David Levithan

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#5. Every life is different from any that has gone before it, and so is every death.

Sherwin B. Nuland

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#6. Paradise is being able to say at that (second before our death) moment: I made some mistakes, but I wasn't a coward. I lived life and did what I had to do.

Paulo Coelho

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#7. Sometimes I feel like my whole life before she died was a dream.

Ann Dee Ellis

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#8. Before there was a death there had been a life, and before that life a death and that there would be a life after this death too. The circles would continue on without end and everyone who was once connected would be connected again.

M.J. Rose

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#9. I Might never find that love my heart has always desired, but I know I will succeed before I die.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

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#10. As he was shaking off, it came to Jake Chambers that the Pere would never do this again, or grin at him and point his finger; or cross himself before eating. They had killed him. Taken his life. Stopped his breath and pulse. Save for dreams, the Pere was now gone from the story. Jake began to cry.

Stephen King

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#11. This isn't the first time I've faced death, and I don't intend for it to be the last," I said, repeating the same words he'd told me before fighting in that fateful duel. "I've chosen to live a dangerous life, but it's who I am, and that wouldn't change even if we'd never met.

Jeaniene Frost

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#12. Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was black. So all light was absorbed before it had a chance to return. And our dreams, then, were empty.

Jim Carroll

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#13. The future of our fragile, beautiful planet home is in our hands. As God's family, we are stewards of God's creation. We can be wantonly irresponsible, or we can be caring and compassionate. God says, "I have set before you life and death ... Choose life."

Desmond Tutu

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#14. Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die ... " Life can get away from you.

Tony Campolo

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#15. Did not we vow that we would neither of us be either before or after the other even in travelling the last journey of life? And can you find it in your heart to leave me now?

Murasaki Shikibu

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#16. Feel no fear before the multitude of men, do not run in panic,
but let each man bear his shield straight toward the fore-fighters,
regarding his own life as hateful and holding the dark spirits of death as dear as the radiance of the sun.

Tyrtaeus

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#17. Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Ray Bradbury

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#18. My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

Joseph Addison

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#19. 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

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#20. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same state. What I am grateful for is the gift of intelligence, and for life, love, wonder, and laughter. You can't say it wasn't interesting. My lifetime's memories are what I have brought home from the trip.

Roger Ebert

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#21. Every man must be made to realize that further retreat is impossible. He must realize with his mind and heart that this is a matter of life and death of the Soviet state, of the life and death of the people of our country ... the Nazi troops must be stopped now, before it is too late.

Leonid Brezhnev

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#22. Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and Rochester had made a pact that if there was, the first to die would come back and tell the other. But, said Rochester, he [Windham] never did.

Jenny Uglow

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#23. Go mortals, sweat, pant, toil, range the lands and seas to pile up riches you cannot keep; glory that will not last. The life we lead is a sleep; whatever we do, dreams. Only death breaks the sleep and wakes us from dreaming. I wish I could have woken before this.

Francesco Petrarca

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#24. I've never feared death before. I've always been willing to die. Sometimes I even welcomed it, wishing for this all to be over and finally find peace in an endless sleep. But when I look at you, I see possibility, and I start to do what I know better than to do - I wonder

Emalynne Wilder

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#25. The property is cursed. Death dwells here. These rivers run with the blood of those who came before you. Life may not trespass, and when it tries, it will surely be snuffed out.

Denise Daisy

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#26. Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.

James Frey

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#27. Now I know that here is something higher than heaven and deeper than ocean and stranger than life and death and time. I know now what I did not know before.

Kahlil Gibran

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#28. In my despair I remember
that there is life after death;
there is life after death
and I have no problem.
But I ask:
Oh my God,
is there life before death?

Mourid Barghouti

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#29. secular people don't believe in life after death, but rather, they believe in life before death.

Phil Zuckerman

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#30. It occurs to me that there is so much I never knew about him
his past, his role in the resistance, what his life was like in the Wilds, before he came to Portland, and I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

Lauren Oliver

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#31. 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

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#32. Is there life before death? That's chalked up
In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain,
Coherent miseries, a bite and a sup,
We hug our little destiny again.

Seamus Heaney

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#33. As Your Life Flashes Before Your Eyes At The Point Of Death, Let's Hope The Ad Breaks Have Been Edited Out

Dean Cavanagh

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#34. The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die - although it is the tragic fate of most individuals to die before they are born.

Erich Fromm

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#35. Parting is inevitably painful, even for a short time. It's like an amputation, I feel a limb is being torn off, without which I shall be unable to function. And yet, once it is done ... life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid and fuller than before.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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#36. What is there astonishing in the death of a mortal? But we are grieved at his dying before his time. Are we sure that this was not his time? We do not know how to pick and choose what is good for our souls, or how to fix the limits of the life of man.

Saint Basil

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#37. But winter was necessary. Why else would the world have it? The trees seemed to welcome the season, from the way they changed colors before they dropped their leaves and went to sleep. Winter was a part of a cycle, like day and night, life and death.

Merrie Haskell

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#38. He was a phoenix of blood, rising from the ashes of those who had fallen and suffered before him.

Nenia Campbell

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#39. This is Maximilien de Robespierre, barrister-at-law: unmarried, personable, a young man with all his life before him. Today against his most deeply held convictions he has followed the course of the law and sentenced a criminal to death. And now he is going to pay for it.

Hilary Mantel

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#40. As we travel again between life and death,
Waking and dream, blinking, while layers within layers,
None better, none worse, unravel and knit up before us ...

Jay Woodman

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#41. I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.

Veronica Roth

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#42. Only you and I who love Jesus and have Him now before this life's death will be able to be among the special super-citizens of the Heavenly City, a special super-class of people!

David Berg

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#43. It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.

Terry Pratchett

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#44. As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.

Irvin D. Yalom

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#45. Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more? Yet who would tread again the scene He trod through life before?

James Montgomery

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#46. There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.

Charles Mackay

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#47. How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?

Deborah Curtis

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#48. 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

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#49. Before her, I never knew life. After her, I'd never know death.

Brittainy C. Cherry

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#50. I'll be dead after I die, and I was dead before I was born. Life is a break from death. You can't be dead all the time.

Hallgrimur Helgason

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#51. Achala, worrying and scheming about your next life, before you have even completed this one, is not a good practice. Rinpoche

Daniel Prokop

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#52. We should try to live a life of a human once before we die, because there is a difference between having a life and living a life.

M.H. Rakib

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#53. When I first accepted my own death, the world was intantly changed. It was a completely new sensation. It took something like this to finally open my eyes. Before, I had simply shut myself off so that I could not see, could not hear. What had I been doing all this time?

Mohiro Kitoh

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#54. Death is not something you get over. It's the rip that exposes life in a before and after chasm, and all you can do is try to exist as best you can in the after.

Lily Graham

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#55. Capital T-truth is about life before death.

David Foster Wallace

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#56. I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.

V.E Schwab

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#57. The question of afterlife disappears, when we start to recognize the fact that we did not existed before our birth and the same will happen after death.

Sipendr

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#58. I needed, I decided, to really know her, because I needed more to remember. Before I could begin the shameful process of forgetting the how and the why of her living and dying, I needed to learn it: How. Why. When. Where. What.

John Green

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#59. I had never seen a woman in such despair before. It was worse than death, it was a constant longing for death and a constant rejection of life. She lived like darkness in her own day.

Philippa Gregory

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#60. Life is not without pain, but life concerns itself with how we handle that pain, or joy, or confusion or triumph. Life is more than time passing before death, it is the sum and total of all we make of it.

Michael A. Stackpole

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#61. It generally does not take long before a radiation researcher realizes that they are studying the fundamentals of life, death and mass extinctions.

Steven Magee

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#62. My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.

Sarah Rees Brennan

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#63. The picture of helpless indolence she calls herself
sublimely helpless and impotent
I had done living I thought
Was ever life so like death before? My face was so close against the tombstones,
that there seemed no room for tears.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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#64. The only truth of life is that he will be dead one day and before that day come, he should make the maximum out of his life; no karma will postpone his death.

RKSJ

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#65. 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

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#66. If our central concern is finding life after death, there is a chance we will not find life before death.

Michael Hidalgo

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#67. I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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#68. Death is a stripping away of all that is not you. The secret of life is to "die before you die"
and find that there is no death.

Eckhart Tolle

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#69. Abstain not! Life and love like night and day
offer themselves to us on their own terms,
not ours. Accept their bounty while ye may,
before we accept by the worms,

Richard Hovey

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#70. To only see 'death' in death is to somehow assume that death itself is a barrier so abrupt that God Himself is halted by it. To see 'life' in death is to understand that death is a sprawling horizon to a new beginning that God created long before death ever thought to show up.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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#71. We deceive ourselves in thinking that death only follows life whereas it both goes before and will follow after it for where is the difference in not beginning or ceasing to exist the effect of both is not to be

Seneca.

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#72. I have a theory that as human beings get older, chemicals are released into the brain to prepare us for the end. Sort of like how the nurse lubes your ass up before the anus-cam. It makes the whole thing a lot easier to swallow. Easier, not enjoyable.

Kris D'Agostino

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#73. You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said.
"And it's the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant hold upon the beauties of living. Women know this more often than men because birth is the reflection of death.

Frank Herbert

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#74. Someone asked me if I really believed there was life after death. I replied: Do you really believe there is any life before death?

Marshall McLuhan

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#75. Sometimes, life is about what happens before death.

Jennifer Lynch

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#76. Few people are interested in a religion that has nothing to say to the world and offers them only life after death, when what people are really wondering is whether there is life before death.

Shane Claiborne

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#77. Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet.

C.S. Lewis

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#78. Remember, death will surely come; yet life stands before you. Live it!

Darrick Williams

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#79. Just as trees bear their fruit before winter, just as bamboo grass produces its seeds just before it withers, sex is simply a struggle with death on the human level.

Kobo Abe

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#80. I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.

Sylvia Plath

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#81. 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

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#82. I mean, he was something that happened to me, you know? But before he was this minor figure in the drama of my life he was - you know, the central figure in the drama of his own life.

John Green

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#83. 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.

Seamus Heaney

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#84. Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet this period is reckoned a portion of life. - Pg. 82

Robert Harris

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#85. No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.

Bob Avakian

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#86. We tend to get a little information before we off people. It's not a play by ear sort of deal.

Holly Hood

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#87. Is this the bit where my whole life passes in front of my eyes?" He said.
NO, THAT WAS THE BIT JUST NOW.
"Which bit?"
THE BIT, said Death, BETWEEN YOU BEING BORN AND YOU DYING. NO THIS ... MR. TULIP, THIS IS YOUR WHOLE LIFE AS IT PASSED BEFORE OTHER PEOPLE'S EYES ...

Terry Pratchett

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#88. Thick is the darkness
Sunward, O, sunward!
Rough is the highway
Onward, still onward!
Dawn harbors surely
East of the shadows.
Facing us somewhere
Spread the sweet meadows.
Upward and forward!
Time will restore us:
Light is above us,
Rest is before us.

William Ernest Henley

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#89. Maybe, if she was standing before that sleeping king, she'd ask the king to save Gansey's life.

Maggie Stiefvater

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#90. Jesus poured out his soul in life before he poured it out unto death

Charles Spurgeon

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#91. Death descends upon us to take away a life or change its form: let us judge it by what it does and not by what we do before it comes and after it is gone.

Maurice Maeterlinck

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#92. People say that your life flashes before your eyes before you die, but they're wrong. It's not your life that passes before you, it's the regrets that do.

Elise Valenti

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#93. The serious thoughts of our short stay here would be a great means of promoting godliness. What if death should come before we are ready? What if our life should breathe out before God's Spirit has breathed in? Whoever considers how flitting and winged his life is, will hasten his repentance!

Thomas Watson

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#94. Construct your life plans before satan attempts to destruct you with his death plots. I know this for sure; he is not in to heal! He just came to kill, to steal and destroy! Satan is not wise, it is only crafty!

Israelmore Ayivor

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#95. I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change nothing about it still look both ways before they cross the street

Stephen Hawking

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#96. 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

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#97. Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

Robert Jordan

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#98. But at the time of transition, your guides, your guardian angels, people whom you have loved and who have passed on before you, will be there to help you. We have verified this beyond a shadow of a doubt, and I say this as a scientist. There will always be someone to help you with this transition.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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#99. I'll have that someday, thought Peter. Someone who'll kiss me good-bye at the door. Or maybe just someone to put a blindfold over my head before they shoot me. Depending on how things turn out.

Orson Scott Card

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#100. To put one's career before one's personal life is like putting death before life.

Marty Rubin

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