Near Death Quotes - Page 3

• That is an incredible period I think when you have a near-death experience. You are really understanding that there is a greater self than the physical body, and the cosmic anatomy as I call it is suspended and physical, is almost attached to it but not quite, and you're living in that in-between sphere of apparent reality around you and then the real reality of the infiniteness of it all.

  Maya Tiwari

  Real, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• 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.

  Gary Kinnaman

  Inspiring, Angel, People

  Gary Kinnaman (1994). “Angels Dark and Light”

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• I believe that everybody, whether you believe in the afterlife or the chance of a near-death experience and you come back and you see someone [on the other side] - whether that has happened or not, I don't know, but certainly everyone has thought about it at some point or another in time. It's a fantasy that if there is anything out there like that, it would be just terrific, but that remains to be seen.

  Clint Eastwood

  Believe, Afterlife, Sides

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• Of course you don't die. Nobody dies. Death doesn't exist. You only reach a new level of vision, a new realm of consciousness, a new unknown world.

  Henry Miller

  Death, Spiritual, Unknown Worlds

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

  Francis Bacon

  Friendship, Death, Home

  Francis Bacon (1765). “The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes”, p.638

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• The dissemination of pseudoscience, including such things as the fascination with near-death experiences and the growing belief by Americans -- 34 percent of them -- in reincarnation are dangerous. They help to break down the standards of reason.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Fascination, Pseudoscience, Growing

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• We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

  Graham Greene

  Death, Resigned

  Graham Greene (1951). “The heart of the matter”

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• 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.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Ideas, Skydiving, Cautious

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• I still live. Pretty.

  Daniel Webster

  Death, Near Death Experience, Stills

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• 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.

  John Ankerberg

  Religious, Buddhist, Atheist

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• Obituaries are like near-death experiences for cowards.

  Austin Kleon

  Coward, Near Death Experience, Obituary

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.27, Workman Publishing

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• I was watching Maury Povich the other day. He had these people on who say that they've had near death experiences. Do you ever notice they always say the same thing? 'I remember seeing this really bright, white light.' It's like, of course, you pinhead, it's the paramedic looking in your pupils with a penlight.

  Carol Leifer

  Light, White, People

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• I believe love is why we're here on the planet and that ultimately it's our purpose for life. They say people who've had near-death experiences often report back that at the end of our lives we have a life review and we're asked one question, and that question is, how much did you love?

  Marci Shimoff

  Believe, Love Is, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• 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.

  Bernie Siegel

  Believe, Years, Interesting

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near.

  Laura Nyro

  Death, Dying, Wells

  Song: And When I Die

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• 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.

  Eben Alexander

  Journey, People, Brain

  "Proof of Heaven: A Doctor's Experience With the Afterlife". www.newsweek.com. October 8, 2012.

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• Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!

  George Carlin

  Funny, Death, Senior

  George Carlin (2004). “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, Hyperion

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• 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.

  Kirstie Alley

  Skinny, Energy, Looks

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• Death is just a change in lifestyles.

  Stephen Levine

  Life, Change, Death

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2012). “Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying”, p.290, Anchor

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• Death is nothing else but going home to God, the bond of love will be unbroken for all eternity.

  Mother Teresa

  Death, Losing A Loved One, Home

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• Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Death, Military

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• I have them a few minutes to absorb everything while I teased Ubie, who only had to recover from his near-death experience. I was so glad Reyes hadn't ripped him to shreds. I liked him much better un-shredded. Unlike, say, my preference for lettuce or heavy metal guitar solos.

  Darynda Jones

  Guitar, Heavy Metal, Preference

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.123, St. Martin's Press

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• Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-death experiences and their comparative frequency with regards to her good self, Alexia should probably have allowed extra time for such a predictable happenstance.

  Gail Carriger

  Self, Extra Time, Trying

  Gail Carriger (2010). “Blameless: Book 3 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.24, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Rachel Vincent

  Passion, Past, Listening

  Rachel Vincent (2012). “Before I Wake”, p.134, Harlequin

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• You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Waiting, Tears, Irony

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.313, Macmillan

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