Death Encounter Quotes

I looked like a ghost. And I should know. I’ve seen a few.

And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.

I had a few brushes with death, where I nearly chose to go. The final one in 1996 did it for me. I suddenly had that feeling that I wasn't indestructible. There was no big white light experience, I just felt this complete blackness and a huge voice inside me saying, 'This is not right.'

When one is young, aspiring to play for the country, doing well, any hindrance, like injury or being out of form, can be frustrating and a cause of annoyance or even anger. But once you have a close encounter with death, you realise the real value of life.

I looked death in the eye - and it was a terrible experience.

I believe I encountered death, which was a bit too much for a seven-year-old.

Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.

Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death.

the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.