Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

There are hundreds of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings around the United States and in other countries too. Wright lived into his 90s and one of his most famous buildings the Guggenheim Museum in New York was completed just before his death. Wright buildings look like Wright buildings - that is their paradox.

Before I pitch any game from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series I'm scared to death.

Should I perchance still feel after my death I would no longer have any doubt but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

Death is the easiest of all things after it and the hardest of all things before it.

See I have set before you this day life and good death and evil... I have set before you life and death blessing and curse therefore choose life.

As long as you don't make waves ripples life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Man as long as he lives is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later God wins.

Prepare for death if here at night you roam and sign your will before you sup from home.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death the body maintains its irreparable lead.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Cowards die many times before their deaths the valiant never taste of death but once.

Because of indifference one dies before one actually dies.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

It was funny actually because that was still during the time we were dating. He would get all these calls because supposedly before we broke up we had already broken up in the trades in the rags or whatever.