Life Flashes Before Your Eyes Quotes

“It is said that your life flashes before your eyes just before you die. That is true, it's called Life.”

— Terry Pratchett

“People say that your life flashes before your eyes before you die, but they're wrong. It's not your life that passes before you, it's the regrets that do.”

— Elise Valenti

“If it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.”

— Amy Hempel

“I fought angrily against seeing particular types of poetic organization because it seemed awful to see my own life and these actual events in that way. But when you put forth an intention into the universe to speak a certain truth and narrate a certain period of your life, you start to see the sorts of symmetries that you are not usually supposed to be able to see until you are on your deathbed and your life flashes before your eyes. And you see exactly why everything happened. And even the most painful things you've ever been through can seem unbearably beautiful.”

— Joanna Newsom

“They say when you die, your life flashes before your eyes.
It's true.
Except all I can see is Cole.
Because he was my life.”

— Jenn Cooksey

“Your wife is psychotic."
"Michaela is just angry. Anger does fascinating things to a woman - not two react the same."
"Yeah, well, she's overreacting. With a knife."
He nodded with a small, almost nostalgic smile. "It was my wedding gift to her. The handle is ivory."
Sick bastard. "Well, at least my murder weapon will have sentimental value."
"That's actually an honour, you know."
"I'll keep that in mind as my life flashes before my eyes.”

— Rachel Vincent

“They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.”

— Lauren Oliver

“It's not true that your life flashes before your eyes when you die. At least, not all of it. Some of your life might flash. Other portions of your life it might take you years and years to recall. That, I think, is the function of Hell: It's a place of remembering. Beyond that, the purpose of Hell is not so much to forget the details of our lives as it is to forgive them.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“As Your Life Flashes Before Your Eyes At The Point Of Death, Let's Hope The Ad Breaks Have Been Edited Out”

— Dean Cavanagh

“They say that when you're about to die, your life flashes before your eyes. They never tell you that when you watch someone you once loved dying, hovering between this life and the next, it's twice as painful, because you're reliving two lives that traveled one road together.”

— Becca Fitzpatrick

“If Life flashes before your eyes just before you die ... mine will be wearing a trench coat”

— Josh Stern