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Quotes About Near-death

I have been in danger of being drowned twice.
~ John Aubrey
life is worth a whole lot more when your on the verge of losing it!
~ Suzette Francis
you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.
~ Tim O'Brien
Though it's odd, you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. You recognize what's most valuable.
~ Tim O'Brien
There is a kind of largeness to it, a kind of godliness. Though it's odd, you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. You recognize what's valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you love what's best in yourself and in the world, all that might be lost. At
~ Tim O'Brien
Though it's odd, you're never more alive when you're almost dead.
~ Tim O'Brien
You could have fooled me. Everytime I called you, Luke said you were sick. I figured you were avoiding me. Again." "I wasn't. I did want to talk to you. I've been thinking about you all the time." "I've been thinking about you, too." "I really was sick. I swear. I almost died back there on the ship, you know." "I know. Everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.
~ Cassandra Clare
You almost died tonight , he wanted to say. You dumb son of a bitch, you nearly died ... and then what would we have done? And not "we" as in the Brotherhood. Not even "we" as in he and John. More like … "me".
~ J.R. Ward
I've had four near-death experiences - very, very near death experiences, and a few of them I've never spoken about publicly.
~ Sara Evans
And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.
~ Ned Vizzini
In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'
~ Alan Alda
There was a kind of euphoria, he had discovered, in nearly dying and then not.
~ Laini Taylor
You don't have to have been near death to know . . . what living is all about–but maybe it helps.
~ Lance Armstrong
Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.
~ Cassandra Clare
I swear, I almost died back there on that ship, you know." He let her hand go, but he was staring at her, almost as if he meant to memorize her face. " I know," he said. "everytime you almost die, I almost die myself.
~ Cassandra Clare
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
He almost died," I pointed out. "Not that I have any other experience of it, but I would guess that when people almost die, their worth automatically goes up, at least to some small degree.
~ Lauren Baratz-Logsted
Those who have "died" and returned usually report being met and guided by people they know very well—even those already dead many years.
~ James L. Garlow
I had survived the plagues of Africa, bullets and near death on the killing field. I'd survived the blade at my neck, only to lose my life to a virus inside a clean German clinic. I
~ James Patterson
What might be happening in human beings who experience near death is that they are getting cold, but before they get so cold that they would die, they're actually diminishing their oxygen consumption in a way that is unknown. And that extends their survival limits, so they can appear dead but actually not be dead.
~ Mark Roth
THE YEAR OF OUR LORD 2019, THIRTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD EVA MERCY NEARLY choked to death on a piece of gum. She'd been attempting to masturbate when the gum lodged in her throat, cutting off her air supply.
~ Tia Williams
I almost died. Fortunately, my mother was a nurse. She gave me a shot of something, and things turned out brilliantly." Lucky me, I thought. Why couldn't his mother have been a telephone operator?
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
Fourteen percent of NDEers reported having frightening experiences, devils and monsters and suffocating darkness.
~ Connie Willis
He had so very nearly lost his life, that what remained was wonderfully precious to him.
~ D.H. Lawrence