Quotes on Near Death

Life is a near-death experience.

You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

Do you see O my brothers and sisters? It is not chaos or death, it is form, union, plan, it is eternal life, it is happiness.

Normally we do not like to think about death. We would rather think about life. Why reflect on death? When you start preparing for death you soon realize that you must look into your life now... and come to face the truth of your self. Death is like a mirror in which the true meaning of life is reflected.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.

It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life is the way to this destination.

O death! We thank you for the light that you will shed upon our ignorance.

Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is the birth in the spiritual.

It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are.