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

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Book:Demons on the Dalton

Source: Demons on the Dalton

“The human condition is what it is. We can see beauty and wonder in the world, but we also face imminent death and uncertainty, and we often need to sidestep the idea of time and communicate with each other, not with words but with a sense of community and union. I don't want to make an overreaching statement, but I think that's the function of culture.”

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Author:Justin Adams

“If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?”

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Author:Chuck Palahniuk

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

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Book:Search for the Red Dragon

Source: Search for the Red Dragon

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

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Book:The Angel Experiment

Source: The Angel Experiment

“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.”

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Book:Maximum Ride: Max

Source: Maximum Ride: Max

“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.”

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Book:The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

Source: The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography

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

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Author:Suzanne Collins

“There's a lot of Hollywood bullshit about flying. I mean, look at the movies about test pilots or fighter pilots who face imminent death. The controls are jammed or something really important has fallen off the plane, and these guys are talking like magpies; their lives are flashing past their eyes, and they're flailing around in the cockpit. It just doesn't happen. You don't have time to talk. You're too damn busy trying to get out of the problem you're in to talk or ricochet around the cockpit. Or think about what happened the night after your senior prom.”

“In a last violent protest against the hopelessness of imminent death, I sensed my spirit piercing through the enveloping gloom. I felt it transcend that hopeless, meaningless world, and from somewhere I heard a victorious "Yes" in answer to my question of the existence of an ultimate purpose. At that moment a light was lit in a distant farmhouse, which stood on the horizon as if painted there, in the midst of the miserable gray of a dawning morning in Bavaria. "Et lux in tenebris lucet"-and the light shineth in the darkness.”

Source: Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition

“I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life.”