“There is lucidity inspired by the nearness of the grave:to be close to death is to see clearly” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“A great melancholy was hanging in the air, giving their love a more languid, more tender feeling. It was like the love… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“I had never been so close to death before. For a long time, as I lay there trying to clear my mind,… — Andre Brink Copy Share Image
For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate...… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
There is nothing compared to the feeling of losing life. The moment when you are close to death is nothing but a… — Manisha Koirala Copy Share Image
“Is it not strange how quickly one can become detached from everything? How empty life appears when one is close to death!” — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“... we absolutely mustn't forget it. We mustn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
We musn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
What the meat industry figured out is that you don't need healthy animals to make a profit. Sick animals are more profitable...… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Is it life threatening?” they asked. They said it slightly sotto voce, but you could hear the thirst for sensation right through… — Herman Koch Copy Share Image
People always speak beautifully when they are in love or close to death. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
“I am at the hospital waiting for my friend with Noah. Which is a very couple-like thing to do. All you have… — Lauren Barnholdt Copy Share Image
Having come so close to death, I now value just how precious life truly is and want to ride what God gave… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
“I knew the way these guys operated; I'd seen it over and over again. They had a need to manipulate and dominate… — John E. Douglas Copy Share Image
I was in Korea. I've noticed all my life I see elderly people who have been close to death in an illness… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
“They were enemies, they had both been very close to death and the other had done little or nothing to intervene, but… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
Flexibility, openness and softness are consorting with life. When you are rigid and you know the answer and don't listen to other… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“We mustn't forget old people with their rotten bodies, old people who are so close to death, something that young people don't… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
“Man is reluctant to accept that his life has come to a conclusion in that most important respect, that his hopes have… — Ivan Klíma Copy Share Image
