Near Death Quotes - Page 4

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

  Veronica Roth

  Boys, Doe, Kind

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

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Near Death Experience, Survived

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• People changed lots of other personal things all the time. They dyed their hair and dieted themselves to near death. They took steroids to build muscles and got breast implants and nose jobs so they'd resemble their favorite movie stars. They changed names and majors and jobs and husbands and wives. They changed religions and political parties. They moved across the country or the world -- even changed nationalities. Why was gender the one sacred thing we weren’t supposed to change? Who made that rule?

  Ellen Wittlinger

  Country, Jobs, Stars

  Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Parrotfish”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Death, Thinking, Mirrors

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

  Anne Shropshire

  Death, Perspective, Dying

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• You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Heart, Secret

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Death, Distance, Friendly

  Oliver Goldsmith, David Masson (1869). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith”, p.693

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• To not think of dying, is to not think of living.

  Jann Arden

  Death, Thinking, Dying

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• One lady wrote me and told me how she wants to see me get beat up and near death and that kind of stuff.

  George Eads

  Want, Stuff, Kind

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

  Stephenie Meyer

  Tired, Looks, Yeah

  Stephenie Meyer (2009). “New Moon”, p.223, Hachette UK

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• I always look well when I'm near death.

  Greta Garbo

  Looks, Wells

  "Fictional character: Marguerite Gautier". "Camille", www.imdb.com. 1936.

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• 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

  Harold S. Kushner

  Years, Office, Balance

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• We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Death, Suicide, Dream

  Journal, 25 Oct. 1836

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• Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

  Plato

  Death, Night, Men

  Plato (1947). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.44, Lulu.com

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• Life is a near-death experience.

  George Carlin

  Funny Life, Life Is, Near Death Experience

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.198, Hachette UK

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• The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

  William Penn

  Sympathy, Death, Life Is

  William Penn (1807). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life: Also, his advice to his children relating to their civil and religious conduct, to which are added extracts from the writings of William Law & Judge Hale; with a "Description of the happy man & true gentleman."”, p.92

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• The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.

  Edgar Cayce

  Death, Overcoming, Lasts

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• Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

  John Dryden

  Death, Fear, Knows

  'Aureng-Zebe' (1675) act 4, sc. 1

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

  Eben Alexander

  Believe, Neurosurgeons, Phenomenon

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