Quotes About Nearly Dying

#1. One of the biggest lessons I learned from nearly dying of cancer is the importance of loving myself unconditionally. In fact, learning to love and accept myself unconditionally is what healed me and brought me back from the brink of death.

Anita Moorjani

#2. Nearly dying brings you closer to living. There's a thin border; you feel yourself cross it, going back to the land of the living, going home. Perhaps, if you'd gone the other way, death would have been a different home.

Jackie Kay

#3. She read like a woman drinks water after nearly dying of dehydration.

Shannon Hale

#4. Franz said with a resigned sigh. 'Normally I am enjoying the whole shooting and exploding and nearly dying thing as much as anyone, but I am wondering perhaps if there is any chance that I might be being allowed to sit this one out for once?

Mark Walden

#5. Dying in vain isn't really all that bad since nearly everyone does it. It's the living in vain you really have to watch out for.

Ross Thomas

#6. If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

Meghan O'Rourke

#7. And as for the smell of me on you, that's more than arousing. That's primal.

Anonymous

#8. Would I have fared better if I had stood my ground and stared down my pursuers? Could so-called self-preservation sometimes backfire and become the very cause of pain?

David Michie

#9. When you go to watch a baseball game, when you go to watch an NBA game, when you watch an NFL game, when you go to watch movies, the offering that those arenas are doing foodwise is 'all the hot dogs you can eat'; all the French fries you can eat; for $20 you can eat 20 hot dogs.

Jose Andres

#10. Really. Is there anything nice to be said about other people's vacations?

Amor Towles

#11. The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

Steven Pressfield

#12. I stopped living a long time ago, in order to simply exist. Now I am trying to leave existence, in order to step into nihility.

Lionel Suggs

#13. You will remember every day for the rest of your life because I was the one and you threw me away. And then he left.

Tarryn Fisher

#14. A man and a woman can love each other so deeply that their hearts beat as if they were one heart, and yet, at the same time, know that they are utterly hopelessly different.

Philippa Gregory

#15. I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy.
Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin.

Orson Scott Card

#16. Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.

Winston Churchill

#17. Fear is not one of my attributes.

Bernie Mac

#18. She was in a mental hospital, and so, she could allow herself to feel things that people usually hide. We are all brought up only to love, to accept, to look for ways around things, to avoid conflict.

Paulo Coelho

#19. The wellbeing of the head resounds throughout the whole body, and as are the Superiors, so, in turn, will their subjects be.

Saint Ignatius

#20. It's really weird watching the government watch me.

Hasan M. Elahi

#21. It was something he had never quite understood about himself. He had seen thousands of men die in nearly ten years of war and could look on it at times with a near-total detachment, but an animal suffering - be it a horse or needra injured in battle, or the stag now dying - moved him deeply.

Raymond E. Feist

#22. Sure smokers have made personal choices. And they pay for those choices every day, whether sitting through an airline flight dyingfor a smoke, or dying for a smoke in the oncology wing of a hospital. The tobacco companies have not paid nearly enough for the killing.

Anna Quindlen

#23. They say that when men are dying in battle their fingers nearly always twist into the soil, trying to hold on to the earth and all the pain and love it holds. The

Terry Hayes

#24. A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Henry Fielding