Quotes About Near-death

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

Look at my life. I almost died. I almost died several times. My shoulders were down, man. But I kicked out. I kicked out again. Someone upstairs obviously likes me. So maybe I should, too.

you're never more alive than when you're almost dead.

When you hear 'From the Other Side,' it's like being on an operating table. Suddenly, you're on the ceiling looking down at the doctors who are fighting for you. Are you gonna get a second chance or not?

What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.

The closest I have come to death was when I had my crash at the Blois outdoor velodrome in central France in September 1969.

My outlook on life is totally different because my life was almost taken.

You know, I've nearly been killed by a poisonous flying lizard-snake, and came close to becoming a squid-croc snack. And you nearly died from stubbing your toe?

Sixty-five seconds, he said. You weren't breathing for sixty-five seconds after we found you. I lived and died during each one of them. He let out a breath. Never again.

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

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

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

Damn. That was stupid, wasn't it? We nearly got killed over ice cream.

Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune-so long as you didn't actually die of it.

Of course, had she gone, he would have died, he reflected. And never come to this place and got his land, nor seen his daughter, nor held his grandson in his arms. Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune—so long as you didn't actually die of it

Come to think, perhaps being nearly killed wasn't always a misfortune—so long as you didn't actually die of it.

The things you think about when you're a hair's breath away from getting yourself killed.

Besides the pain in my gut, why shouldn't I laugh? I've almost escaped death in a foreign country.

Someone might come close to dying, and they'll enjoy life much more than everyone else. I came close to the death of my sports career, and I enjoy everything coming my way.

I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.

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

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

Harry Marsham, who was known as Marsh to his friends, should have died that night.