Approaching Quote by Gary Krist

Perhaps, if you knew you were going to die, your senses crammed in as much detail as they could while they still had the…

— Terry Pratchett

The moment before I jump is filled with anxiety and what-ifs. But then as soon as I enter the air, I'm filled with this…

— Dean Potter

“Death drives every creative and destructive impulse we have as human beings. The closer we come to understanding it, the closer we come to…

— Caitlin Doughty

“I am disturbed to discover that my colleagues have invented a new game which seems to involve attempting to kill me in every juvenile…

— Stanley Donwood

“Writing, painting, singing - it cannot stop everything. Cannot halt death in it's tracks. But perhaps it can make the pause between death's footsteps…

— Ally Condie

The near touch of death may be a release into life; if only it will break the egoistic will, and release that other flow.

— D. H. Lawrence

“Nobody has ever come back from the dead, and there is significant evidence that near death experiences are the product of brain activity that,…

— Al Stefanelli

I refuse to walk faintly through life only to arrive safely at death!

— Paulo Coelho

Don't be afraid to take a chance, to jump. Because death will always swallow you up anyway. Death is a friend; it encourages us…

— Frederick Lenz

Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“A pleasing paradox — The more frequently we contemplate our death, the less dominant its effect in our lives becomes. Like King Mithridates, who…

— Giannis Delimitsos

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

— Blaise Pascal