“When you have been close to death it makes you think about life.”
Patrick Dixon book Building a Better Business
Building a Better Business (2005)
Prologue
Discussion (1932)
“When you have been close to death it makes you think about life.”
Patrick Dixon book Building a Better Business
Building a Better Business (2005)
“The most difficult element is perhaps the lack of privacy in my life.”
Sania Mirza (1986) Indian tennis player
India's most wanted
Witold Pilecki (1901–1948) World War II concentration camp leader and resistor
After the announcement of the death sentence.
Source: Bartłomiej Kuraś, Witold Pilecki – w Auschwitzu z własnej woli, „Ale Historia”, w: „Gazeta Wyborcza”, 22 kwietnia 2013.
“Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.”
David Gemmell book Legend
Source: Drenai series, Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde, Ch. 18
“Death is a continuation of my life without me…”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
José Saramago (1922–2010) Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature
Interview to the newspaper "O Globo", 2009.
“I have made my choice, Hori. I will share my life with you for good or evil, until death comes…”
Agatha Christie book Death Comes as the End
With his arms round her, with the sudden new sweetness of his face against hers, she was filled with an exultant richness of living.
Death Comes as the End (1945)