Best Close To Death Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.”

Thinking May Whole Brain Fine Shapes Function Priorities Affected Motor Ordeals Close To Death

Author:Bill Berry

“When you have been close to death it makes you think about life.”

Thinking Has Beens Make You Think Close To Death

Book:Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation

Source: Building a Better Business: The Key to Future Marketing, Management and Motivation

“I've come close to death more times than Elizabeth Taylor has said 'I do.'”

Said More Time Close To Death

Author:Mireya Mayor

“I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness and they're absolutely cured and they say, now I know how to live my life. I've seen death. That happened to me when I was 19. It was a terrible, terrifying thing. And I live my life like those people decided to do when they were old. So, since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.”

People Knows Has Beens Fun Know How Happened Taught Terrible Decided Army Theater Illness Rough Living My Life Korea Elderly I Live My Life Close To Death

Author:Michael Caine

“Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.”

Way Balance Eros Close To Death

Author:Isabel Allende

“Flexibility, openness and softness are consorting with life. When you are rigid and you know the answer and don't listen to other people's point of view, you are consorting with death. Everything that is old and close to death is brittle and breaks apart including our thinking. So always stay flexible and soft and listen to others with caring. And truthfully, all of the verses hit me - especially when you think about them for days, and then write on them.”

Thinking Writing Break Caring Point Of View Openness Verses Flexibility Softness Close To Death

Author:Wayne Dyer

“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?”

Thinking Years Real Choices Courses Experience Fades Flavor Afraid Of Failure Close To Death

Author:Debra Winger

“...there is little that comes so close to death as fulfilled love.”

Littles Fulfilled Close To Death

Author:Ivan Klíma

“For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fiancé,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too.”

Ifs Firsts Kind Long Ends Home Felt Taken Cry Ready Long Time Understood First Time Evening Fading Begin Again Respite Close To Death

Author:Albert Camus

“We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't want to think about. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude. Nor must we forget that these old people were young once, that a lifespan is pathetically short, that one day you're twenty and the next day you're eighty.”

People Thinking Want Ends Body Young Dies Next Forget One Day Solitude Twenties Decline Next Day Old People Eighty Rotten Close To Death

Author:Muriel Barbery

“What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable... Factory farms calculate how close to death they can keep animals without killing them. That's the business model. How quickly they can be made to grow, how tightly they can be packed, how much or how little can they eat, how sick they can get without dying...We live in a world in which it's conventional to treat an animal like a block of wood.”

“This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.”

Firsts Strange Involved Terrible First Time Goodbye Saying Goodbye Close To Death

Book:A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles

Source: A Ring of Endless Light: The Austin Family Chronicles

“I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place.”

States Body Left Given Animal Powerful Conditions Personality Died Extremes Thick Dread Curtains Ufo Paralysis Wild Animal Suffocating Close To Death

Author:Whitley Strieber

“Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything else.”

Thinking Littles Rooms Survival Usual Rabbits Close To Death

Book:Watership Down

Source: Watership Down

“People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.”

People Want Has Beens Sick Close To Death

Author:Anna Deavere Smith

“As indicated by the increase in maternal mortality in 2010, right now it's more dangerous to give birth in California than in Kuwait or Bosnia. Amnesty International reports that women in [the United States] have a higher risk of dying due to pregnancy complications than women in forty-nine other countries (black women are almost four times as likely to die as white women). The United States spends more than any other country on maternal health care, yet our risk of dying or coming close to death during pregnancy or in childbirth remains unreasonably high.”

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