How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from American Beauty.
Quote #10
LESTER: I had always heard your entire life flashes in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second isn't a second at all—it stretches on forever, like an ocean of time.
Lester gives us an overview of what went through his head at the moment of his death. The series of images he sees shows us that his thoughts were primarily with family and the good times that he had with them. Kind of heartwarming that his mind went to them, especially after spending the entire film hyper-fixated on sleeping with a teenager. Guess death really does make you confront what really matters, at least in American Beauty's universe.