Top 100 Quotes About Life Before
#1. And immediately, mixed with a sizzling sound, there came to Shasta a simply delightful smell. It was one he had never smelled in his life before, but I hope you have. It was, in fact, the smell of bacon and eggs and mushrooms all frying in a pan.
C.S. Lewis
#2. If you look at my life before I went into television, the struggle I went through coming out would be surprising to most people, given how comfortable and how out I am being the only late-night gay talk-show host.
Andy Cohen
#3. How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass.
Jennifer Michael Hecht
#4. You want a bit of life before it's all over. It takes all the guilt away.
Brenda De Banzie
#5. Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.
Pope John Paul II
#6. He stands with his hands in his pockets, well-dressed and self-assured, with his life before him and a plush armchair behind him.
Edmund De Waal
#7. In the midst of creating, a person is raised to another level of consciousness that doesn't have that much to do with everyday thinking. It's as if you could imagine life before there were words.
Charlie Haden
#8. I had no fucking life before you. You are my life. Without you, I might as well take a shotgun to my head and join you in the dirt because, Tess, if you leave me - if you're so fucking weak not to fight, then that is what will happen to me. You'll crucify me.
Pepper Winters
#9. Some of us feel the need to experience life before bending to the will of an arcane society.
Nicki Elson
#10. Zayn's good to just sit down and chat to about pretty much anything. At the end of the night, we just sit around and talk about our life before One Direction, or anything at all, really.
Louis Tomlinson
#11. Music is part of the tantra, the dance of life. Before your eyes, before your awareness, is the procession of eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#12. Computers absolutely changed my life. Before I had a computer, I had never written one thing. Not one thing. I'm a very bad speller and I was embarrassed by that. When I would type, the little mistakes would make me nutty, and I would never edit anything.
Penn Jillette
#13. Maybe everyone is crazy up in these mountains. Maybe the air up here makes you absurd, the scent of flowers and rock and snow. And I've never spoken like that to anyone in my life before. You're my only friend here, you know that? And you're fifty years away.
Jackie French
#14. The key imperatives of modernity: freedom of conscience, tolerance of difference, equality of the sexes, and an investment in life before death.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#15. Insufferable woman!" was her immediate exclamation. "Worse than I had supposed. Absolutely insufferable! Knightley! - I could not have believed it. Knightley! - never seen him in her life before, and call him Knightley! - and discover that he is a gentleman!
Jane Austen
#16. As much as I love to dive into the action early, I think the hero's journey is important - the idea that the reader needs to experience the protagonist's everyday life before you turn that world upside down.
Kami Garcia
#17. Our family life, before figure skating turned it upside down, seemed normal. Our town of Riverside, Connecticut, was part of Greenwich, and we had the advantage of their wonderful community, with great beaches and beautiful parks.
Dorothy Hamill
#18. There was life before you, and then life with you. There wasn't supposed to be life after you.
Paula Garner
#19. Ultimately, discipling involves living out the whole Christian life before others.
Mark Dever
#20. That's a hard question, because I started skating when I was three, so I don't really remember life before it, and I don't know what it is like not to work hard at something.
Julie Benz
#21. Do you remember? Do you remember being solid? Do you remember life before the hole? Before you were empty and needed to be filled? There was a time when everything was enough. There was a time you didn't try to get out of your own skin. Remember?
Amy Reed
#22. He'd live on land and eat cheesecake for the rest of his life before that happened.
Anna Banks
#23. The big truth for men is that often we have to leave home in the first half of life before we can return home at a later stage and find our soul there.
Richard Rohr
#24. We tend to misunderstand the colour black, seeing it as evil, or negation of life. Rather, black means all things being possible, infinite energy of life before consciousness has constructed any boundaries. When we fear blackness or darkness we fear the deep unconscious source of life itself.
Rachel Pollack
#25. You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
Gabriel Iglesias
#26. We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.
Orson Scott Card
#27. I had never touched a computer in my life before I came to Pixar.
Andrew Stanton
#28. Pavel is not a doctor any more, Bruno' said Maria quietly. 'But he was. In another life. Before he came here
John Boyne
#29. I'm willing to look my own nightmare on film, but if it endangers my life, then I'm willing to put my life before movies.
John Travolta
#30. Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is stretching for effect to avoid the actual life before his eyes.
Roger Rosenblatt
#32. He was the heart of my world, my gravity, my sun. My life before him was a dream from which I'd joyously awoken. He turned this dusty cell into a prince's chamber, hung it with satin and silks. I loved him.
Harper Fox
#33. At dinner the next day, it was soup again. It had been soup for every meal for many days now. Simon did not remember a life before soup, and he despaired of ever achieving a life after soup.
Cassandra Clare
#34. You may often see Jesus Christ wreck a life before He saves it. (Cf. Matthew 10:34)
Oswald Chambers
#35. You must not think, Mrs. Borkman, that I haven't said the same to him. I have laid my whole life before him. Again and again I have reminded him that I am seven years older than he -
Henrik Ibsen
#36. I had a dog named Jesus once. I crucified him, but he didn't come back to life. Before he died, he told me what to do to the people in the brick house. Off went their heads.
Robert McCammon
#37. I know some times you think I say I love you because I have to, but every time I say i love you I mean it that little bit more. It's hard to explain how I feel as I have never felt like this, and yeah it's scary because i could never see a life before you and now my life is you.
Charanjit Singh Mannu
#38. If you make too many things too public, then you end up living your life before the court of public opinion.
Farrah Gray
#39. It feels like I've been waiting a century to do that. It's like time has lost all continuity. Every second with you outweighs days of life before I met you.
Stephanie Meyer
#40. I can hardly remember my bleak life before you.
Lauren Kate
#41. Life before Death.
Strength before Weakness.
Journey before Destination.
Brandon Sanderson
#42. The justification of my life before God is to live because of and toward the living, dying, and rising of Jesus Christ.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#43. With all the infinite possibilities of spiritual life before you, do not settle down on a little patch of dusty ground at the mountain's foot in restful content. Be not content until you reach the mountain's summit.
J.R. Miller
#44. I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity ... they would like to end their life before nature intended, and we think they should have the choice to do so.
Margo MacDonald
#45. Incredible shame is associated with mental illness. People will confide the most intimate details of their love life before they'll mention a relative who had a serious mental breakdown. But the brain is just another organ. It's just a machine, and a machine can go wrong.
Candace B. Pert
#47. Passion is a decision about how we will approach life, before it becomes a feeling!
Joyce Meyer
#48. Everybody dies ... The thing is, to have a life before we die.
John Irving
#49. On her deathbed ... I tell her she is as good a soul as I have ever met or hope to meet, that she is an angel in the flesh, and that I will speak her name to God every night of my life before I go to sleep.
Dean Koontz
#50. It scares me how hard it is to remember life before you. I can't even make the comparisons anymore, because my memories of that time have all the depth of a photograph. It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.
David Levithan
#51. [ ... ] my life has fallen into categories - in spite of everything - gradiatons of her.
Life before Scarlett. Life with Scarlett. Life after Scarlett.
Wanting her.
Needing her.
Having her.
Losing her.
R.K. Lilley
#52. She had never chosen death over life before and as she was leaving she knew something had cracked and broken and the order of things had changed. Then the dark obliterated all thoughts.
Kate Atkinson
#53. I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.
John Sexton
#54. Now was the time to get everything back on track, to figure out who I was and what I wanted to do with the rest of my life before I got all distracted by a soul mate with a bod for sin.
Madelyn Alt
#55. Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.
Mariella Frostrup
#56. 'Performance' gave me doubts about my way of life. Before that, I had been completely involved in the more bawdy side of the film business. But after that, everything changed.
James Fox
#57. I look at those hands. I look at them, long and hard and symbolically, because in my heart I know they're the hands that will end my life before this night is over.
J.A. Redmerski
#58. All the disappointments of our life before the war were a fool's paradise.
Glenway Wescott
#59. It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
Napoleon Hill
#60. Is there life before death?
Amy Wolf
#61. Think about the first time you really fell in love. No, I mean, really think about it. How it was like your whole life before that moment was a black-and-white movie, and suddenly you stepped into Technicolor.
Danielle Paige
#62. What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it.
Jodi Picoult
#63. I'd be alone the rest of my life before I'd settle for less than a man that flat out adored me.
R.K. Lilley
#64. A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.
Nora Roberts
#65. I don't think I blushed once in my entire life before I met you," I say.
"There will be a lot of things your body never did before you met me," he brags unabashedly.
Lilly Black
#66. I've seen love bring a monster back to life before, but most of the time, the monster just loves you to death.
J.M. Darhower
#67. That night longer than all my life before it. No scale or measure in this world can ever be held constant. We are always slipping.
David Vann
#68. Do other mothers behold their newborn sons as I did? Do they all find themselves stopped, breathless, in what they were doing to merely stare, in wonder, at the tiny life before them?
Elizabeth C. Bunce
#69. My life before children I don't really remember. I've heard references to it, but I really don't remember.
John Malkovich
#70. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other ... I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.
Nicholas Sparks
#71. I learned about life before I went into the theater, which is why I've been so happy. I was a soldier.
Michael Caine
#72. Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys ... Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma's house ... and a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn't stay awake for both.
Michelle Obama
#73. You need to know where you want to go in life before you get there...
Shadonna Richards
#74. But you know the thing that I thing oftentimes gets ignored and neglected is there was 10 or 12 years of life before I met Amy and before she met me, where you know, whatever happened was probably going to happen some day.
Vince Gill
#75. Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.
Charlie Haden
#76. True love is when you put someone else's life before yours.
Anonymous
#77. We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#78. We do what our rising-star photographer failed to do. What all photojournalists fail to do. We go get her out of that death of a life before she dies.
Lidia Yuknavitch
#79. We know we're coming full circle with God when we stand at a very similar crossroad where we made such a mess of life before, but this time we take a different road.
Beth Moore
#80. I have only the vaguest memory of a life before fear. Every morning when I wake up there is one blissful second before I took around the room and remember my daily terrors.
Lena Dunham
#81. The faint of lemon verbena surrounded her, floating gently from Eleanor Butler's silk gown and silken hair. It was the fragrance that had always been part of Ellen O'Hara, the scent for Scarlett of comfort, of safety, of love, of life before the War
Alexandra Ripley
#82. His life before the triumph that defined his legacy was a reminder of the importance of patience, courage, and the absence of self-pity.
Tom Brokaw
#83. I'm glad I lived such a full life before I settled down into a family because I got to enjoy it and get it out of my system.
Drew Barrymore
#85. An unsuspected yearning uncovered, discovered. For a simpler time and a simpler life. Before Internet, and climate change, and terrorism. When neighbors worked together, and separation was not a topic or an issue or wise.
Louise Penny
#86. Don't be gullible, use life before it uses you. Understand there are no free lunches, and for every action you take, there's a reaction.
Sylvester Stallone
#87. All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
#88. Anyone can read a self-help book and start preaching. It takes a lot of courage (and everything else) to change your life before becoming a life coach.
Maddy Malhotra
#89. But instead of delight his soul was filled with such gloom, and his heart ached with such anguish, as he had never known in his life before ... "I am base" he whispered to himself.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#90. Cricket is my life. Before the cancer, I was happy-go-lucky. I used to think about my career and worry about the future. But post it, my thinking has completely changed. I'm happy to eat and breathe normally. I'm happy to have my life back.
Yuvraj Singh
#91. Death moved in the night, in search for blood, and when it found Life, it passed on by, like a cloud that moves by the face of the moon. When he found those dead without the red, he took the life before them born first, and the mourning emptied itself till the morning.
Anthony Liccione
#92. Everyone deserves 100 years of good life before starting to grow old.
Patricia Gulley
#93. To bend the work of nature to your will; to make the trees of the earth useful to human beings - what could be more admirable , more exciting than this? That is what I would say to any boy who has his life before him.
Amitav Ghosh
#94. There had been counts in his life before. Counts before dueling pistols were fired. Counts before footraces and horse races. Counts in his head to postpone his release while some beautiful woman lay beneath him.
Julie Anne Long
#95. You know I need a dream Like I need my breath We need to take the life Before we get the death You know I need your love Like I need the light Yes I need the chance Can it be tonight?
Harry Chapin
#96. One thing people would be surprised about is that although hard rock and heavy metal are without question 90% of what I listen to and my passion, there are other things I enjoy. My first ever favorite band in my life before KISS was a power-pop band called The Raspberries.
Eddie Trunk
#97. We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.
E.W. Howe
#98. Live your life, before your life leaves you.
Timi Nadela
#99. Be silent in that solitude Which is not loneliness - for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee - and their will Shall then overshadow thee: be still.
Edgar Allan Poe
#100. It's a hard case,' said Paul. 'First, I'm twenty. That means I'm very nervous and ill-at-ease with women. Second, I'm twenty. I have all my life before me, and frankly the prospect often appals me. Thirdly, I'm twenty, and I'm in love with Anna and my heart is breaking.
Doris Lessing
