Before Death Quotes
42 quotes by 37 authors
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Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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The Most Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, also Jews, heretics,…
— Pope Eugene IV
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Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections. You are exactly the same after death as you were before. Nothing changes; you only…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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A silence is needed before death, before life, before love. If you love a person you sit silently with the person. You would not like…
— Rajneesh
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I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.
— Joel-Peter Witkin
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Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.
— Petrarch
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Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child who…
— Alan Dershowitz
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We usually say that you cannot become a legend before death. But I am a living legend
— Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where…
— Flannery O'Connor
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Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.
— Rumi
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An artist conscientiously moves in a direction which for some good reason he takes, putting one work in front of the other with the hope…
— John Cage
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I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do return,…
— Janet Frame
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O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's…
— Delmore Schwartz
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The word ‘holiday’ comes from ‘holy day’ and holy means ‘exalted and worthy of complete devotion.’ By that definition, all days are holy. Life is…
— Penn Jillette
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Before death overpowers us, we have great things to accomplish by performing right actions.
— Mata Amritanandamayi
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Botha swimmer and a drowned man are in the water; the latter is borne by the water and controlled by it, while the swimmer is…
— Rumi
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I want people to emphasize life before death as opposed to life after death.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our…
— May Sarton
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Is there life before death? - that is the question!
— Anthony de Mello
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We can't allow ouselves to be depresses or discouraged. There are people who depend on us, things to accomplish. We only have a little bit…
— Frederick Lenz
Who Wrote These Before Death Quotes
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