Top 30 Quotes About Living Before You Die
#1. It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
Seneca The Younger
#2. As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.
Jane Smiley
#3. Spend time with the people who bring out your true flavors but don't overpower you.
Grace Helbig
#4. Her eyes were open, taking in my tired face ... Her face twitched into what looked like a squinty smile, and in her wordless expression I saw gratitude, and relief, and trust. I wanted, desperately, not to disappoint her.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#5. Strive to discover the mystery
before life is taken from you.
If while living you fail to find yourself,
to know yourself,
how will you be able to understand
the secret of your existence
after you die?
Farid Al-Din Attar
#7. Many people die long before their departure date,
Through ignorance of living a life they never wanted to be apart of but are to scared to change.
Nikki Rowe
#8. Best way to save humanity is to turn the monsters against one another.
Neal Shusterman
#9. He was going to make this happen. His feet and his head was set, and when he got that way, he always did what he said he was going to do. It was his pride. The only one he had.
Richard Bachman
#11. You shouldn't have counseling at the end of life. You ought to have counseling 20 years before you're going to die. You ought to plan these things out. And I don't have any problem with things like living wills. But they ought to be done within the family.
Chuck Grassley
#13. I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.
Ron Silver
#14. That awkward moment right before you die when you realize you haven't done enough in life to be considered living." ~Peregrine Storke~
R.K. Ryals
#15. The ironic thing is that marketers have responded to this problem with the single worst cure possible. To deal with the clutter and the diminished effectiveness of Interruption Marketing, they're interrupting us even more!
Seth Godin
#16. I come now to tell you for what I am brought here to die, and to give you an account of my faith, which I shall do as in the sight of the living God before whom I am shortly to stand.
Donald Cargill
#17. Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.
Billy West
#18. Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.
Louis MacNeice
#19. Your whole life passes in front of your eyes before you die. This is called living.
Terry Pratchett
#20. Before you speak, listen.
Before you write, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you invest, investigate.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
Before you retire, save.
Before you die, give.
William Arthur Ward
#21. 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
#22. Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane "experiences" which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That's not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in.
Tom Hodgkinson
#23. 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
#24. When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good ... nothing is too difficult for children.
Madeleine L'Engle
#25. I THINK PERHAPS YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE'S WHOLE LIVES DO PASS IN FRONT OF THEIR EYES BEFORE THEY DIE. THE PROCESS IS CALLED "LIVING." WOULD YOU LIKE A PRAWN?
Terry Pratchett
#26. Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.
Edvard Munch
#27. We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living.
William Hazlitt
#28. Ray Bradbury's connections to fantasy, space, cinema, to the macabre and the melancholy, were all born of his years spent running, jumping, galloping through the woods, across the fields, and down the brick-paved streets of Waukegan.
Sam Weller
#29. To hear Him, to know Him, and to understand the wonder of His love - one must trust Him completely.
Beth Wiseman
#30. How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)
Stephen Levine
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