Near-death Quotes

Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.

I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened.

When I broke my neck, I was told that I came within a millimeter of dying or being paralyzed from the neck down. When it happened, I was numb on one side. In spite of how serious they were telling me it was, I never took it seriously. I kept saying it's going to be OK, I trained too hard to get hurt. Which is silly.

The eunuch had looked death in the face, so near he might have kissed her on the lips.

The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

I'm lucky to be alive.

I'm destiny's child. I wasn't meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she was pregnant, and then she fell down the stairs in her eighth month of pregnancy. She nearly died; I believe I came into this world for a reason.

I've heard it said that when you die you enter a room of bright light, and that you can smell bread baking just around the corner.

Those who have known death from inside lose all fear of death.

Occasionally, human beings are briefly de-animated, and the stories of people who are briefly de-animated that interest me the most are those having to do with the cold.

I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'

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.

I did a lot of crazy things so I'm surprised to be alive.

Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.

In an area of more than 1,000 war graves and with birdsong as the only sound, I contemplated the thin margin between life and death. If the sniper's bullet had been just two feet to one side, my father's life would have been over, aged just 27, and I would never have been born.

Canoe plus waterfall equals I don't go camping anymore.

I broke my neck, it's a classic neck break from chin to chest. If I had been alone, I would probably be dead.

The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

Hearing that I'd come so close to dying should've terrified me, but all I could muster up was a weary "This day sucks.

Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

My age I will not once lament, / But sing, my time so near is spent.