Quotes About Imminent Death

#1. 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

#2. Fang looked at me, hope in his eyes, and I smirked at him. I save the huge emotional kissy-face for imminent death scenes. This probably didn't qualify.

James Patterson

#3. [A] person is justified in the use of deadly force and does not have a duty to retreat if: (1) He or she reasonably believes that such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself.

Lisa Bloom

#4. The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

James Patterson

#5. There was no point moping around when you faced imminent death.

Rick Riordan

#6. He leaned towards me, and I did what any reasonable person would do when facing imminent death by being eaten alive. I screamed.

Donald G. Firesmith

#7. If I can't joke about imminent death, then I might as well just resign.

James A. Owen

#8. That if I had to choose between dying tomorrow or spending the rest of my life without him, I would seriously consider picking imminent death.

James Patterson

#9. There's something about imminent death that makes all the threads weave into a picture ...

Lauren DeStefano

#10. Is what's manifesting as a fear actually some instinct to resist being young? Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it's too late. Is the sense of imminent death bound up in the desire to leave some kind of a legacy?

Lena Dunham

#11. Too bad Justice refused to let him toss live grenades to the side of the course. That would add motivation. He knew from personal experience. His personal best time for a quarter-mile run had been in Africa - while being chased by an angry rhino. Imminent death made for a great workout.

Susan Mallery

#12. When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#13. Only you could contemplate imminent death and just say 'all right.'"
He smiled at me and pushed the hair back from my tear-stained face. "How about 'oh no'?

Leigh Bardugo

#14. Bosch knew that department policy held that deadly force was justified if it was used to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to an officer or a citizen. Mendenhall was not required to identify herself or give Ellis the opportunity to drop his weapon.

Michael Connelly

#15. It's said people can sense their imminent death. Maybe they hear death's song in the wind. Or the earth stops turning for a second, mourning those who are yet to pass.

Jayde Scott

#16. Imminent death didn't terrify her as much as did the prospect of having lived a life in perpetual retreat, a life that would amount now to so much less than she'd ever hoped, ...

Dean Koontz

#17. Embrace the probability of your imminent death ... and know there is nothing i can do to save you.

Suzanne Collins

#18. Now they [the Powers] have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?

Empress Dowager Cixi

#19. As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.

Dick Cheney

#20. Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

Dag Hammarskjold

#21. But my focus would have to be on my imminent role, intimately involved with the when and how of death - the grave digger with the forceps. Not

Paul Kalanithi

#22. Felt my heartbeat falter, hesitate, then stumble awkwardly forward, tripping on the next beat, then the next, faster and faster until each one tumbled into the other like the drumroll of dominoes crashing together. Funny how time stands still when death is imminent.

Darynda Jones

#23. When death is imminent remember - this is not a dress rehearsal, the time is now, share your love!

Alison Bramhall

#24. Even in that difficult hour when he knew death was imminent, he never indulged in self-pity. He knew intuitively that a person is only a victim if he accepts himself as one.

James C. Dobson

#25. Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age.

Eckhart Tolle

#26. Now he was the Carswell Thorne who had given her strength in the desert. Who had come for her when she was kidnapped. Who had kissed her when hope was lost and death was imminent. Thorne

Marissa Meyer

#27. He was determined to save her, to be her hero, to give her a reason why the gods had seen fit to place him inside her visions. Gods, he wanted to rescue her. After all, she had rescued him; she had become his heroine a long time ago, before his death became imminent.

Madison Thorne Grey

#28. Would not the sight of a single enemy airplane be enough to induce a formidable panic? Normal life would be unable to continue under the constant threat of death and imminent destruction.

Giulio Douhet

#29. The currency of this world will be worthless at our death or at Christ's return, both of which are imminent.

Randy Alcorn

#30. Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

Dan Chaon

#31. I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

Aaron Huey

#32. In a sense, we are all crashing to our death from the top story of our birth ... and wondering with an immortal Alice at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles - no matter the imminent peril - these asides of the spirit ... are the highest form of consciousness.

Vladimir Nabokov

#33. When one begins the transformative process, death and birth are imminent: the death of custom as authority, the birth of the self.

Marilyn Ferguson

#34. There can be no stronger claim to a physician's assistance than at the time when death is imminent, a moral judgment implied by the state's own recognition of the legitimacy of medical procedures necessarily hastening the moment of impending death.

David Souter

#35. Way she sees it, people fall into one of two categories: those who think their death is imminent, and those who figure they have long, healthy lives ahead of them. Nobody ever thinks it's somewhere in-between.

Chuck Wendig

#36. Trying to figure out how to best manage his time between doing a task for imbeciles and avoiding imminent and painful death by protocol. I

Sam Sykes

#37. When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician's role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient's wishes.

Marcia Angell

#38. Had he known his death was imminent, he might have gone somewhere else. Instead, he did what we all do. He went about his dull routine as if all the days in the world were still to come.

Mitch Albom

#39. Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.

Justina Chen

#40. The death of every art form seems imminent at least once in every century; but while the very funeral arrangements go forward, some child is born who is Michelangelo, Picasso, Yeats.

Reynolds Price