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Before I Die Quotes (page 10)

Oh, if a man tried To take his time on earth And prove before he died What one man's life could be worth, I wonder what would happen to this world Harry Chapin
Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to. Thornton Wilder
You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover.'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while. Before I die for ever. A. E. Housman
James Thurber quote: "All human beings should try to learn before they die what they..."
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. James Thurber
All the worry people expend over not existing after they die, yet nary a one ever seems to spare a moment to worry about not having existed before they were conceived. Or at all. After all, one sperm over and we would have been our sisters, and we'd never have been missed. Lois McMaster Bujold
From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation? Ray Bradbury
Does it hurt?"' The childish question had escaped Harry's lips before he could stop it. Dying? Not at all,' said Sirius. 'Quicker and easier than falling asleep. J. K. Rowling
You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened. Jorge Luis Borges
George R. R. Martin quote: "A READER lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who..."
A READER lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one. George R. R. Martin
David Foster Wallace quote: "Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die..."
Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. David Foster Wallace
Stories without endings can do nothing but go on forever, and to be caught in one means that you must die before your part in it is played out. Paul Auster
No one knows better than I do how far heaven is, but I also know all the shortcuts. The secret is to die, when you want to, and not when He proposes. Or else to force Him to take you before your time. Juan Rulfo
There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die? Frederick Buechner
My beloved Laura” (said she to me a few Hours before she died) “take warning from my unhappy End …Beware of fainting-fits…Beware of swoons, Run mad as often as you chuse; but do not faint—”. Jane Austen
The common contaminated foods which would be the major source of Sr-90 might be classified into five grades- A, B, C, D, and E... The A food would be restricted to children and to pregnant women. The B food would be a high-priced food available to everybody. The C food would be a low priced food also available to everybody. Finally, the D food would be restricted to people over age forty or fifty... Most of these people would die of other causes before they got cancer. Herman Kahn

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