Top 1200 Near Death Quotes & Sayings

Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?

When death comes too near, comedy and tragedy fall silent.

Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of Jesus, in and near Jerusalem, than we know about the death of any other one man in all the ancient world.

I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free.

In my incoherence I was grateful that for a few moments I had known what it was to suffer-or so I thought. But nothing is less like a thing that that which is closest to it. A man who had been near to death thinks how he knows death. When the day finally comes for him to meet it, he does not recognise it. 'This is not it,' he says, as he dies.

With the near-death or clinical near-death phenomenon some people who are brought back from 'death' have reported being alive the entire time they were 'dead.' This phenomenon occurs among people with a wide diversity of religious belief and no religious belief at all - from atheists to Zen Buddhists.

Thirst of wealth no quiet knows, But near the death-bed fierce grows.

Life is a near-death experience.

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

Very often, if a founder is waiting around for someone else to tell him what to do, the company is near death.

Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.

I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .

This is the fear: death will come and we have not lived yet. We are just preparing to live. Nothing is ready; life has not happened. We have not known the ecstasy which life is; we have not known the bliss life is; we have not known anything. We have just been breathing in and out. We have been just existing. Life has been just a hope and death is coming near. And if life has not yet happened and death happens before it, of course, obviously, we will be afraid because we would not like to die.

And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman.

Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.

I'm a really cautious person, so I don't let myself get into near-death experiences. I'm not into the idea of skydiving or anything.

And I'm the kind of person who does not let inconsequential things like boys and near death experiences stop her.

In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

I always look well when I'm near death.

You look tired." "Yeah," I agreed, and shrugged. "Near-death experiences do that to me . . .

On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it's a near miss. Bullshit, my friend. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss. [WHAM! CRUNCH!] "Look, they nearly missed!" "Yes, but not quite.

The Buddhist concept is that it takes 48 days to get near this state [of death]. So it's a slow process, moving into, not a permanent death, but the world of the dead.

When I experience something, I believe it. I almost choked to death when I was a four year old and had a near death experience. I was very upset that I didn't die because it was a lot more interesting out of your body than in it.

Near-death experiences release a lot of endorphins, resulting in a natural high," Tod whispered. "And it's totally true that one passion feeds another." "You know we're way past 'near-death', right?" "My endorphins aren't listening to you.

Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.

Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!

Death is only frightening from the near side.

I was essentially bankrupt at the age of 16. That almost near-death experience kind of built the next success for me in business.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

Someone's killed 100,000 people. We're almost going, "Well done! You killed 100,000 people? You must get up very early in the morning! I can't even get down the gym. Your diary must look odd: 'Get up in the morning, death, death, death, death, death, death, death - lunch - death, death, death - afternoon tea - death, death, death - quick shower ...' "

Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

I was on a starvation diet to look like I was near death in a film... but I went at it with a plan, and I had a guide; a nutritionist kind of helped me with it.

That death was near, I suppose I believed, but I saw it only as a rest after the day's work.

The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.

When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny, it looks like you're near death.

This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad.

Death is never an ending, death is a change; Death is beautiful, for death is strange; Death is one dream out of another flowing.

The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near bedsides. It was in the pantry, the cellar, the backyard.

Eyes like streams of melting snow, cold with the things she does not know. Heaven above and Hell beneath, liquid flames to hide her grief. Death, death, death with no release. Death, death, death with no release.

I've had four near-death experiences - very, very near death experiences, and a few of them I've never spoken about publicly.

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

My death has not yet quite arrived, but it is near and inevitable as night follows day.

Why do we cling to life and why are we afraid of death? You may not have thought about it. The reason why we cling so much to life and why we are afraid of death is just inconceivable. We cling to life so much because we do not know how to live. We cling to life so much because really we are not alive. And time is passing and death is coming nearer and nearer. And we are afraid that death is coming near and we have not lived yet.

I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.

We devolve into animals when we creep near to death.

I love reading about ghosts, near-death experiences, astral projection - which is when you leave your body.

At the point so near to zero, just almost before the death, life's value jumps to infinity!

There are worse things than death. Many of them playing at a theater near you.

Don’t yell at me when I just survived a near-death experience. (Abbie)

I know people who have had near-death experiences or who have experienced terminal illness and come through the other side.

One of the near-death experience truths is that each person integrates their near-death experience into their own pre-existing belief system.

Heaven comes to people - and their loved ones - when they are dying. It is not uncommon for angels to appear when people are on the edge of death, and people who have had near-death experiences often describe feelings of indescribable peace - Angels.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.