Despite all expectations, the time of my last campaign and of my passing is near. I wish to die at home. Let not my end disarm you, and on no account weep for me, lest the enemy be warned of my death.
— Genghis Khan
Lavish Near Death quotations
I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office
I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.
After you die, you wear what you are.
The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.
Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through.
Death is just a change in lifestyles.
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.
It’s not bad people I fear so much as good people.
When a person is sure that he is good, he is nearly hopeless; he gets cruel- he believes in punishment.
We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.
Let us love silence till the world is made to die in our hearts.
Let us always remember death, and in this thought draw near to God in our heart - and the pleasures of this world will have our scorn.
Life is a near-death experience.
The classic Soul Travel experience is leaving the human body in full awareness and having the Light and Sound of God flow directly into the Soul body.
On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!
Death may call any moment. Every moment, everyone is nearing death.
I always look well when I'm near death.
For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
I shall seeThe hour of death draw near to me,Hope, blossoming within my heart. . . .
I am waiting for you, for an interval, somewhere very near, just around the corner. All is well.
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
When you're missing your two front teeth, that's honesty.
That is a door to your oral history. You're not covering anything up. You're saying, 'Hey world, I'm missing my front teeth. I'm gross; I'm dirty; I'm poor. I clearly have no problem with public urination and eating garbage. Don't come near me, I'll gum you to death!
The dying often have the sensation of rising up and floating above their own body while it is surrounded by a medical team, and watching it down below, while feeling comfortable. They experience the feeling of being in a spiritual body that appears to be a sort of living energy field.
Very often, (in near-death experiences) the person encounters a divine or angelic being. This may be described as Christ, an angel, even God.
We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.
Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.
Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.
The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.
You look tired." "Yeah," I agreed, and shrugged. "Near-death experiences do that to me . . .
And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.
The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event, be it positive, negative, or somewhere in between, expected or unexpected, the biggest surprise of all is to realize you are still you.
It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
I was watching Maury Povich the other day.
He had these people on who say that they've had near death experiences. Do you ever notice they always say the same thing? 'I remember seeing this really bright, white light.' It's like, of course, you pinhead, it's the paramedic looking in your pupils with a penlight.
