Before I Die Quotes - Page 3

• Before I die many will die with me and they'll deserve it. See you in Hell.

  Kurt Cobain

  Hell, Dies, Deserve

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• Maybe you should say goodbye, Cal.' 'No.' 'It might be important.' 'It might make her die.

  Jenny Downham

  Goodbye, Important, Might

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• I must sojourn once to the ballot-box before I die. I hear the ballot-box is a beautiful glass globe, so you can see all the votesas they go in. Now, the first time I vote I'll see if the woman's vote looks any different from the rest--if it makes any stir or commotion. If it don't inside, it need not outside.

  Sojourner Truth

  Beautiful, Glasses, Different

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• It's just that the churches have been sleeping for a long time. A lot of people argue that the churches are even dead. I don't believe they're dead, but they've been sleeping, but they, I hope, will wake up, and that's one of my tasks is to make sure they wake up as much as they do before I die.

  Cornel West

  Believe, Sleep, Long

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Long ago, when I was a very young girl, I said that I wanted to go everywhere, see everything, taste everything. hear everything, touch everything, try everything before I died. There isn't anything you can name that a woman can do that I haven't done. I don't intend to stand by and be a spectator. I want to be right in there in the midst of it, right up to my nose - totally involved in the community, in the world, in the stream of history, in the human image.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Girl, Long Ago, Names

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• Allen's [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: "What can I do for you before I die? Do you need money? What can I do?".

  Anne Waldman

  Loyalty, People, Dying

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I have a confession to make. The love affair of my life has been with the Greek language. I have now reached the age when it has occurred to me that I may have read some books for the last time. I suddenly thought that there are books I cannot bear not to read again before I die. One that stands out a mile is Homer's Iliad.

  William Golding

  Book, Greek, Age

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I will smoke crack before I die. I want to see what all the hubbub is about.

  Eric Andre

  Cracks, Want, Dies

  Source: www.complex.com

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• I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote", so right before I die I could say "unquote".

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Wish

  "When the Leaves Blow Away". Documentary, Comedy, 2006.

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• To be interested solely in technique would be a very superficial thing to me. If I have an emotion, before I die, that's deeper than any emotion that I've ever had, then I will paint a more powerful picture that will have nothing to do with just technique, but will go beyond it.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Powerful, Superficial Things, Technique

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• If I can wake up everyday before I die and know that I don't have to serve anyone food or drinks, I will be happy!

  Kelly Clarkson

  Winning, Everyday, Wake Up

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• There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.

  Golda Meir

  Sympathy, Expression, People

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• If I get even five per cent of my ideas out and documented before I die, I'll be lucky. I'm not in danger of running out of riffs or ideas anytime soon. They overwhelm me and it's hard to find time to deal with them.

  Jello Biafra

  Running, Ideas, Lucky

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• I'd like to make as much art as I possibly can before I die, so I'm working on a few things.

  Ezra Miller

  Art, Dies

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• I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

  Pat Conroy

  Uncles, Aunt, House

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• I'm trying to learn, as I'm in my 40s, to embrace what I've been able to achieve and be proud of it. And I know there's roles that I will want to play before I die but, you know, I'm still just taking one day at a time.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Play, One Day At A Time, Trying

  "Kristin Chenoweth On God, Comedy And Dolly Parton". Interview with Jacki Lyden, www.npr.org. March 3, 2012.

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• And though the years before I die
  Stretch out interminably, I
  Shall only count my life in truth
  As that brief hour of happy youth.

  Ibn Hazm

  Years, Youth, Hours

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• I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.

  Jean Webster

  Sight, Maps, Want

  Jean Webster (2004). “Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy”, p.86, Penguin

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• My arm is paralyzed; my voice that once could be heard all along the line, is gone; I can scarcely speak above a whisper; my hearing is very much impaired, and sometimes I feel as if I wished the end would come; but I have some misrepresentations of my battles that I wish to correct, so as to have my record correct before I die.

  James Longstreet

  Voice, Wish, Battle

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• I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.

  Alasdair Gray

  Love Is, Had Enough, Ought

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• Baseball will be back to Montreal, I want to see it. I want it to happen before I die. I will see it

  Felipe Alou

  Baseball, Want, Montreal

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• I love you. It hurts more than anything ever has, but I do. So don't you dare tell me I don't. Don't you ever say it again!

  Jenny Downham

  Hurt, Love You, Dare

  Jenny Downham (2012). “Now is Good (Also published as Before I Die)”, p.261, Random House

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• I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things.

  Jenny Downham

  People, Want, Honest

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

  Mel Gibson

  Movie, Veterans Day, Freedom

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• Die before you die and find that there is no death.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Power Of Now, Stripping, New Earth

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.46, New World Library

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