Quotes About Impending Death

#1. It seems impossible to wheedle his way out of his impending death. No one has before him. But just as a young person feels invincible, he cannot bring himself to accept the looming train as he stands upon the tracks feeling the deep rumbling of the behemoth barreling straight toward him.

M. Starks

#2. Awoke to find three vultures sitting on the fence. Realizing they were a portent of impending death I shot them.

Bridget Allison

#3. The true test of a soldier's mettle is to see whether or not they will cling to what they believe in, even in the face of impending death.

Matthew S. Williams

#4. Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death

Jhonen Vasquez

#5. The Last Supper is meant to picture not only the fulfillment of past promises of God and the present impending death of Jesus, but just as much the assured future of an even greater meal in the coming kingdom of God.

Thomas R. Schreiner

#6. We eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner to the soundtrack of our own impending death.

Courtney Summers

#7. I love chocolate cake for breakfast," Peggy stalls, "it sets me up for the day. A little decadence is good for the soul." She's been eating more cake than usual, lately. Impending death does have compensations after all, then, if only chocolate-covered ones.

Menna Van Praag

#8. That was the problem with snide comments; they invariably lost all their punch on repetition. Besides, when facing impending death, what did the odd witticism matter?

Lauren Willig

#9. Impending death makes one run faster. I think that's probably why they fire a gun before track meets.

Gene Doucette

#10. There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

Roger Ebert

#11. Death is the ultimate barrier, and when faced with impending death, personally or for someone you love, a mortal being will encounter, most of all, ultimate humility. We

R.A. Salvatore

#12. Individuals reacted in any number of ways to extreme stress and, relatedly, to impending death.

A non-negligible percentage of people reacted in a manner which could be summed up by, 'Screw it, I'm going out in style!

G.S. Jennsen

#13. Impending death had a way of unexpectedly unearthing the past so that it came together with the present in an unholy coupling.

Abraham Verghese

#14. 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

#15. To each his own, I supposed, and I had more important things, like my impending death, to worry about.

Sage Kafsky

#16. A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

Sara Sheridan

#17. All cats are gray in the dark.

Benjamin Franklin

#18. I'm a huge geek, so I love 'Stargate' and 'Firefly.'

Cassie Steele

#19. What does the anticipation feel like? The sensation of staring into the void, the awareness of an end's impending arrival? Burning and being extinguished simultaneously?

Teo Yi Han

#20. Someone who doesn't know if tomorrow will come would rather live every day twice than live it once.

Shannon A. Thompson

#21. Aside from the Rizzoli & Isles books, there are many other stories I want to write. The question is whether I'll live long enough to write them all!

Tess Gerritsen

#22. Jewish vampires: We turn into cats not bats bwaaahaha

Tasha Turner

#23. Here, falling in love can be an event, a proclamation without acknowledging that everyone you love could die an awful death, that loving someone is an acceptance of impending loss.

Julianna Baggott

#24. I've considered lobbying the medical field to rename rheumatoid arthritis something sexier, younger, and more exotic. Something like "The Midnight Death," or "Impending Vampirism." Or perhaps to name it after someone famous. Like "Lou Gehrig's disease, part two: THE RECKONING.

Jenny Lawson

#25. The soul will fly home of its own accord, but shipping a coffin is pretty expensive.

Svetlana Alexievich

#26. Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.
[Lat., Accedit etiam mors, quae quasi saxum Tantalo semper impendit: tum superstitio, qua qui est imbutus quietus esse numquam potest.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#27. I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

Virginia Woolf

#28. As Christians living in changing times, we must keep three things open: our heads, our hearts, and our Bibles.

Kevin DeYoung

#29. I almost never danced, as much as I wanted to. I was crippled by some childhood fear of my own body.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#30. Nobody's death is impending."
... "Well technically everyone's death is impending.

Eoin Colfer

#31. Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

Martin Yan

#32. The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone.

Terence McKenna

#33. People with yuan fen are destined to like one another;
Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart.
But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals,
They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face

Adeline Yen Mah