Quotes About Before

Every existence contains its primal trauma, an event dividing life into a before and an after, a trauma so great that even the most furtive memory of it is enough to make an individual freeze in irrational, incurable, animal terror.

My life and career can be divided into pre- and post- 'Paruthiveeran.'

I've done all sorts of children's things before, but none as big as 'Harry Potter.'

It had replayed in her mind, over and over, growing in importance till it seemed her whole life could be slotted into two categories. Life before the kiss, and life after the kiss. Her life before the kiss had moved step by step ever closer to the predestined event. Meeting Dougal. And kissing him.

We've found his lair in a mortal city called York—" "It's New York," Stelian said with a roll of his eyes, as if he'd explained this before.

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

the real enigma of life is not what happens after you die but what happens before you die.

They were a broken, twisted mess before you got here, and they will be a broken, twisted mess once you're gone

They were a twisted, broken mess before you got here, and they'll be a twisted, broken mess once you're gone

Promise me that if you ever leave me again, you'll shoot me in the head while I sleep before you go.

I'm a fan of the western genre. When I see a character actor, I see a whole movie behind a scene before and after. There's a whole other movie behind it.

I pretend that I was never in the movies. The only job I had before was selling prawns door to door. That's what I tell myself. My kids have never seen my films. I'm too embarrassed to show them.

Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry.

Teadmine ei tee kunagi valu. Valu teeb vaid "enne" ja "pärast".

Ever since they had grounded he had felt, in a way, reprieved. When they had grounded he had felt the heavy bump of the ship as though he were hit himself. He knew it was not rocky as she hit. He could feel that in his hands and through the soles of his feet. But the grounding had come to him as a personal wound. Then, later, had come the feeling of reprieve that a wound brings. He still had the feeling of the bad dream and that it all had happened before.

I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

I certainly supported a woman's right to choose, but to my mind the time to choose was before, not after the fact.

Nature is a big part of my weekend. Whenever possible, I take Friday and Monday off and spend four days outdoors. We should remind ourselves that there was something here before us, a force more powerful than us.

Sometimes roused by desires (say, the trip to Tunisia), but they're desires of before --somehow anachronistic; they come from another shore , another country, the country of before.--Today it is a flat, dreary country--virtually without water--and paltry.

Indeed, the best answer I have ever heard to the question of what it would be like to be dead (i.e., be nonbeing) is to imagine how it felt to be before you were conceived.

Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

Weve been living on a high, theyve been talking on the low. But its cool, know you heard it all before.

Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objectives: education for living and educating for making a living.

negroes' voices floated drowsily back, mingled in an air that she had heard them singing before. "Time is