Top 100 Death Experience Quotes
#1. When you've had a near-death experience, your life is never the same. A divine fire is supernaturally transferred into your soul, to tell everyone about your encounter. This in itself, is a miracle. As such, I am on a mission to rid hell of its future recruits.
Josephine Akhagbeme
#2. His eyesight was possessed by the colours of trauma, cracking and bubbling like an old Super Eight film to remind him of his near-death drowning some two months ago in that very moment when he needed to act.
Luke Taylor
#3. I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.'
Dave Gahan
#4. Once we visit death, once we see the beauty waiting for us, our fear's gone. Used to be never a book written, of our experience with dying. Now there are shelves, waiting to be read. The beliefs, the experiences of so many others, now.
Richard Bach
#5. One loves and is loved in great pain, and one is alive in the experience of it. It is the walking-death quality of depression that I have tried to eliminate from my life;
Andrew Solomon
#6. Some words having to do with the death of the people in the World Trade Center attack had been added, and when I got to it, I had this overwhelmingly emotional experience. I struggled to get through the words; tears were streaming down my cheeks.
Leonard Nimoy
#7. Sure, things die. Yet hard on the heels of every death there comes a birth. And if the life around me is being perpetually refreshed in such a relentless manner, why would I think that the life within me can't have the same experience.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#8. Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and, like the web of a great Spider, binds us subtly to what is near, ensnares us in a fragile cradle of slow death, where we lie rocking in the wind.
Fernando Pessoa
#9. The human birthright includes the possibility of an easy death at extreme old age if we are healthy. Alternatively, we may experience a lot of disease, but with medical intervention probably live almost as long, suffering from suboptimum health all the way through. It's our choice.
Steve Solomon
#10. Life is measured by - the ones left behind? Or his Faith? By Love? or by the people aside you? Or it has no meaning at all?
Aman Jassal
#11. One of the near-death experience truths is that each person integrates their near-death experience into their own pre-existing belief system.
Jodi Long
#13. I'm not big on the after-death experience. If you've done a very good job in your current lifetime, then your next lifetime will be set up for you.
Frederick Lenz
#14. The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I've heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.
Danica McKellar
#15. I had this crazy, a bit of a near-death experience in Estonia. I had these visions of the future but I was in this state where I felt the past, the present, and the future were all happening at the same time.
Taraka Larson
#17. 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
#18. When a worrier acts bravery and face death in a battle, rest assured that he/she is knows that the case fought for has its values.
Sameh Elsayed
#19. We enter the bardo, the intermediate state after # death , just as we enter dream after falling asleep. If our experience of # dream lacks clarity and is of confused emotional states and habitual reactivity, we will have trained ourselves to experience the processes of death in the same way.
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
#20. Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.
W. Somerset Maugham
#21. I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled and so did my tearful eyes.
Time, they say, flies, but I saw it slowly passing by taking each of my tardy breaths with it as it walked out of my life ...
Sanhita Baruah
#22. And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.
Ellen Hopkins
#24. 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.
Phil Keoghan
#25. When faced with your imminent death, the wise man reaches into the depths of his soul, grabs his sword, and does what is proper. The gods have a way of treating you like a two-penny whore on payday, but at least you might face the experience with the faintest bit of dignity.
Terry Mancour
#26. I could not help but see the hand of the balancer in all of this. Could hatred and determination be a counterweight to organization and experience? I suddenly understood something about the old god of death and why he was also the god of balances.
Robin Hobb
#27. Experience has thought me that there is only one short step between Love and Hate, as there is between Life and Death.
Olaotan Fawehinmi
#28. A real good leader is faithful
to a special gift of a near-death experience
Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion of Blue Circle
October 8, 2016
Babaji
Petra Hermans
#30. Jenny retained a flimsy essence of the truth. It was a quiet knowing she'd always hold in her heart...'Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon
Oliver Rixon
#31. I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.
Don Piper
#32. Birth and death are the most singular events we experience - and the contemplation of death, as of birth, should be a thing of beauty, not ignobility.
Jacob K. Javits
#33. Death is not an experience in life; we do not live to experience death.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#34. If experience requires entry into language, then we cannot experience death, for language ceases. There is no remnant.
Erin Moure
#35. Life is about discovering things worth dying for.
Criss Jami
#36. Frustration is not a good enough reason to stop trying ... death is.
Sameh Elsayed
#37. In terms of image-repertoire, the Photographer (the one I intend) represents that very subtle moment when, to tell the truth, I am neither subject nor object but a subject who feels he is becoming an object: I then experience a micro-version of death.
Roland Barthes
#39. Never trust a man who teaches about death
but yet had no real experience at all about it.
Toba Beta
#40. I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.
Veronica Roth
#41. Zoe refers to the aggregate. Bios accommodates the notion of death, that each life has a beginning, middle, and end, that each life contains a story. Zoe, wrote Kerenyi, "does not admit of the experience of its own destruction: it is experienced without end, as infinite life.
Twyla Tharp
#42. We experience what life and death really are when we love, for in love we go out of ourselves, become capable of happiness and at the same time can be hurt.
Jurgen Moltmann
#43. Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.
Meghan O'Rourke
#44. I realize i will never hear from dena again, and i will never call her. it gives me a chill. it is a strange thing to end a friendship, even if you know it's what you want. it's like a death; all of a sudden your experience of a person become finite.
Melissa Bank
#45. It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#46. It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.
Alexandre Desplat
#47. On July 13, 1994, Lint had a near-death experience, followed immediately by death.
Steve Aylett
#48. I think if 'The Narrow Road To The Deep North' is one of the high points of Japanese culture, then the experience of my father, who was a slave laborer on the Death Railway, represents one of its low points.
Richard Flanagan
#49. The only death we experience is that of other people
Tom Rachman
#50. I am an enthusiastic European, and my first-hand experience of war and hatred has strengthened that conviction. I have seen how misguided unilateral nationalistic identities have brought destruction and death. I am, however, a world citizen, too.
Klaus Schwab
#51. Though I can't help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear.
Trudi Canavan
#52. Don't say passed away,' I tell him, drawing from my own terrible well of experience. Say he died. Death is horrible. We shouldn't give it a pretty name.
Alexandra Bracken
#53. Saying good-bye when you know it's for the last time is like no other sadness you will ever experience.
Allison DuBois
#54. The family's function is to repress Eros; to induce a false consciousness of security; to deny death by avoiding life; to cut off transcendence; to believe in God, not to experience the Void; to create, in short, one-dimensional man; to promote respect, conformity, obedience. . .
R.D. Laing
#55. When you realize that eternity is right here now, that it is within your possibility to experience the eternity of your own truth and being, then you grasp the following: That which you are was never born and will never die ... (90)
Joseph Campbell
#56. Handling a dead body is not a repugnant or frightening experience and, somehow, it helps to accept the fact that the soul of that person has gone if you treat the body with reverence and respect before it is finally disposed of by cremation or burial.
Jennifer Worth
#57. We neither fear death nor look forward to it, but revere it as a most exalted experience. Life, death and the afterlife are all part of our path to perfect oneness with God.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
#58. There is one vast human experience that confronts us so formidably that we cannot pretend to overlook it. There is no solution to death. There is no means whatever whereby you or I, by taking thought, can solve this difficulty in such a manner that it no longer exists.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#59. For me, the dying part wasn't so horrible. I was only in pain for a few moments before death arrived. For me, the difficult part was having so many things that I had yet to experience, leaving behind people that I cared about. I wasn't through living.
Suzannah Daniels
#60. I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.
Huston Smith
#61. I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#62. 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
#63. Sometimes when you experience something wonderful, everything else loses its shine.
M.E. Vaughan
#64. Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.
Arthur Koestler
#65. Among all the vicissitudes of life, which vary in each individual's experience, there is one event which sooner or later comes to everyone - Death!
Max Heindel
#66. The experience of death must ultimately be the experience of life, or else it is only a wraith.
Thomas Mann
#67. Even though we look at the past through the lens of distance and think that because people are wearing different clothes or have different technology, their experiences are different, it's all the same, right? Our experience of love and sex and death are the same in any time period.
Liz Goldwyn
#68. I was never afraid of failure after that because, I think, coming that close to death you get kissed. With the years, the actual experience of course fades, but the flavor of it doesn't. I just had a real sense of what choice do I have but to live fully?
Debra Winger
#69. Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!
Gloria Steinem
#70. I'm tolerant of believers, but I'm agnostic. I'm curious to see how scientists will integrate the near-death experience into their research and if it will be explained.
Cecile De France
#71. Jenny sensed the energy of the cosmos. It was like a harmonious orchestra vibrating the universe into existence.' Broken Mirror by Oliver Rixon
Oliver Rixon
#72. When I first accepted my own death, the world was intantly changed. It was a completely new sensation. It took something like this to finally open my eyes. Before, I had simply shut myself off so that I could not see, could not hear. What had I been doing all this time?
Mohiro Kitoh
#73. Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.
Ian McEwan
#74. I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
Robert Fulghum
#75. The Imam posits that the treatment of wantonness is to intentionally experience hunger and to reflect seriously on death and the Hereafter.
Hamza Yusuf
#76. Short of a death in the family, a divorce is perhaps the most life-altering experience in human relationships.
Kenneth Eade
#77. The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#78. What happened to your concern about my near-death experience?"
"You're alive aren't you? Unharmed? No bruises or cuts or head injuries?" Jessica raised an eyebrow and then laughed softly. "So how cute was he?
Kristine Adler
#79. You're right about something else," he
said, his voice ragged. "I'm scared to death of you. Because I want you, when common sense and a lifetime of experience tells me I should kill you. I want you, and if I give up then you'll own me, and I'll have nothing left to fight with.
Anne Stuart
#80. I found myself whirling around and falling down and down. My life memories were spinning around me, flashing like thousands of brilliant pictures with bright cascading colors like a thousand tiny kaleidoscopes...
Cristael Ann Bengtson
#81. We really don't experience the world fully, because we're half-asleep, doing things we automatically think we have to do."
And facing death changes that?
"Oh, yes. You strip away all that stuff and you focus on the essentials.
Mitch Albom
#83. ...it would be a lie to describe the experience as anything less than exhilarating, the repulsive going hand in hand with the wondrous.
Caitlin Doughty
#84. Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.
Lewis Mumford
#85. I believe in the inherent good of people. I believe that someone can make a mistake and live to redeem themselves another day. Maybe that's why I don't believe in the death penalty. It forecloses all possibilities.
Carsen Taite
#86. Enoch was taken away so that he did not experience death ... . He was approved, having pleased God. Hebrews 11:5
Beth Moore
#87. The best religion is the religion that brings you closest to God.
Howard Storm
#88. Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity.
Eugene Kennedy
#89. You call it a near death experience, I call it a near life experience!
L.J. Vanier
#90. Death is just the door through which we experience true Life.
Todd Stocker
#91. The streets transform every ordinary day into a series of trick questions, and every incorrect answer risks a beat-down, a shooting, or a pregnancy. No one survives unscathed. And yet the heat that springs from the constant danger, from a lifestyle of near-death experience, is thrilling.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#92. The sovereign people determines life and death and happiness under conditions where experience and experiment alike show thought to be most difficult.
The intolerable burden of thought.
Walter Lippmann
#93. Unless you are free from your own mind, you can never truly experience the freedom with life.
Roshan Sharma
#94. The coma carried me into a world where time and space seemed to vanish; it was a dreamlike existence in which people, places, and situations shifted as quickly as thoughts. I had a profound sense of being at a crossroads, a turning point, somewhere between death and life ...
Hal Zina Bennett
#95. It's called a near-death experience. You should try it sometime," I said sweetly. "Maybe without the 'near'.
Stacey Kade
#96. To live is to experience dying and is worse than death,
Anchee Min
#97. When a crime is committed, only the victim and the victim's close circle experience the event as pain, terror, death. To people hearing or reading about it, crime is a metaphor, a symbol of the ancient battles fought every day: evil versus good, chaos versus order.
S.J. Rozan
#99. For the person who is grounded in the timeless truth of the universe, there is no life and no death. He or she can experience eternal joy without being limited by the definitions of good and evil. The essence of Oneness always exists within us.
Ilchi Lee
#100. People misunderstood death, they died not of too little life but of too much life, that as the skin withered and the future grew short it was the past that took on flesh, until ultimately the sheer accumulation of experience and memory became too heavy to carry.
Dorothy Gilman
