One Last Thing Before I Go Quotes

#1. This is the last moment of contentment untainted by sorrow, when the brain hesitates before delivering the message to the heart that it knows it must.

Dexter Palmer

#2. There will be pain for us all, but it will not be all pain, nor will this pain be the last. We and you too, you most of all, dear boy, will have to pass through the bitter water before we reach the sweet. But we must be brave of heart and unselfish, and do our duty, and all will be well!

Bram Stoker

#3. Before I succumbed to the sweet lull of his voice, I made one last request. "Stay".
I was asleep before he could answer, but in my dreams I heard him reply forever.

S.L. Naeole

#4. I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript is color-coded the same way. The last thing I do before submitting the manuscript is turn all those colors back to black.

Neal Shusterman

#5. The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

George Bernard Shaw

#6. The mint from your breath, the milk from your breast, the best of your mind, now in its worst state of condition. From the womb to the tomb, as a mild flower, you break your petals upon blossom, and seize death openly. Leaving your fragrance to spin and dance, one last time before being blown away.

Anthony Liccione

#7. The last thing we expect others to do, its the last thing they do before we learn we cannot trust them.

Lauren Kate

#8. But I will not repine. It cannot last long. He will be forgot, and we shall all be as we were before.

Jane Austen

#9. Here, eat this. The chicken gives it protein and I got them to hold the bacon bits.
We'd watched Charlotte's Web on cable last week, so I knew it'd be at least a month before she would eat pork again.

Kathleen Peacock

#10. 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

#11. It started last year, during the summer. I went to the doctor and they found out it was kidney stones, so they had surgery done to help get those out and to pass them ... More just kept coming in. So I had all together before the last show ... I had like five surgeries.

Phillip Phillips

#12. The toxic mix of religion and tribalism has become so dangerous as to justify taking seriously the alternative view, that humanism based on science is the effective antidote, the light and the way at last placed before us.

E. O. Wilson

#13. We may still have as many questions after the game as we did before the game. But that's OK. Good teams answer their questions as they go, but they do it with wins. We didn't get it done last week - we found a way to get it done this week.

Greg Schiano

#14. They say that the moment your life appears before your eyes will be your last, but I'm here to say that it's not so very different when you kiss a woman like Kate, whoever your Kate may be.

Justin Cronin

#15. The sound of the Gion Shoja temple bells echoes the impermanence of all things; the color of the sala flowers reveals the truth that to flourish is to fall. The proud do not endure, like a passing dream on a night in spring; the mighty fall at last, to be no more than dust before the wind.

Helen Craig McCullough

#16. If there's a perk to having such a fucked up father, it's that he's in no position to judge.

Jonathan Tropper

#17. As always, the first instant he sees her, he can feel his heart shut down, the way you do in those first moment after impact, or, he supposes, when you're drowning. Love or panic. The two have always been fairly indistinguishable to him.

Jonathan Tropper

#18. Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?

Jonathan Tropper

#19. Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

Jonathan Tropper

#20. The only thing worse than not having your dream come true is having it come true for a little while.

Jonathan Tropper

#21. Most of what I want to try to do is continue to go places with fiction that I've never gone before, and tell stories I've never told before, and one of the problems you rapidly discover about fans is what fans want is the last thing they liked. They want more of that.

Neil Gaiman

#22. I know, I gotta go, I gotta go, and I got one last thing and I said it before, and I'm gonna say it again: Cancer can take away all my physical ability. It cannot touch my mind; it cannot touch my heart; and it cannot touch my soul. And those three things are going to carry on forever.

Jim Valvano

#23. To you I shall say, as I have often said before, 'Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last '. - Jane Austen

Alexandra Potter

#24. I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

Joel-Peter Witkin

#25. I'll never forget what burning roses look like. All those scarlet petals turning incandescent and furious. Like the last fl are of the sun before an eclipse swallows it from the sky.

Roshani Chokshi

#26. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.

Meg White

#27. the wall iris
opens its buds:
before my eyes
the last spring
begins to fade

Shiki Masaoka

#28. Some of us die long before our last breath. We perish in the fire of love, reduced to ashes in the consuming blaze. No, we do not die when our hearts cease to beat, but when they start beating the first time
for somebody else.

Shakieb Orgunwall

#29. You are the last thought in my mind before I drift off to sleep and the first thought when I wake up each morning.

Richard Kronick

#30. Just before the top of the hill she stopped, breathed deeply, and tried to muster her scattered sense of calm, like a bride checking her veil in the last mirror before the aisle.

Edward St. Aubyn

#31. I don't know. On my last junket I was caught in the middle of a massacre. The one before that I was tortured and left for dead. Joy and recreation seem to have escaped me somehow.

Colin Cotterill

#32. We are silent at the beginning of the day because God should have the first word, and we are silent before going to sleep because the last word also belongs to God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#33. Labor Day is really the last sweet taste of summer. One final pardon before all your Mondays become Mondays again.

Emma Mills

#34. Antony said to Poemen, 'Our great work is to lay the blame for our sins upon ourselves before God, and to expect to be tempted to our last breath.

Benedicta Ward

#35. As a man grows older, his ability to sit still and follow indoor occupations increases. He grows vespertinal in his habits as theevening of life approaches, till at last he comes forth only just before sundown, and gets all the walk that he requires in half an hour.

Henry David Thoreau

#36. Unfortunately, daily routine is the last thing I have with all three kids, family life, work, foundation, and the amount of travel that I do! So truly, what I try to do to keep myself centered is take breaths in between and before I start a new thing throughout the day.

Camila Alves

#37. The last thing you want to do is lose sight of your limit. Please don't allow that to happen..... We all have a limit. What we're willing to put up with before we break.

Colleen Hoover

#38. Make your last thoughts before going to sleep good thoughts.

Rhonda Byrne

#39. The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me ...

Mary Wollstonecraft

#40. Unless it does turn out to be you, of course," Izzy adds. "Then I'll spit on your grave myself. Take you to the last house on the left just before dawn.

Stephen Graham Jones

#41. I've never liked what's meant to be cool. I was asked to do Glastonbury the year before last actually, but I couldn't make it. I would have liked to, but I'm not really a festival man.

Tony Blackburn

#42. This was the part she liked the last, the anticipation before the release of violence. Duringa fight nothing mattered but the fight itself, now she had to strugglw to keep her mind on the task at hand

Cassandra Clare

#43. The last thing I remember from last night was blabbing to Penny about how much I love Michael Keaton as Batman before someone must have ushered me off to bed.

Karina Halle

#44. My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.

Oscar Levant