Dave Gahan Quotes

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

Delusion means mortality. And awareness means Buddhahood.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.

I think having near-death experiences, they sure made me free.

When I experience something, I believe it. I almost choked to death when I was a four year old and had a near death experience. I was very upset that I didn't die because it was a lot more interesting out of your body than in it.

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

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.

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

There is no death, only a change of worlds.

I had a mystical experience when I was in my late teens, early 20s, and I spent years trying to recapture that.

What's funny is that you can think you really value your life until you almost lose it.

One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

Even a cup of coffee tastes so much sweeter because you've come once again out of the, literally, out of the edge of death, and that's the condition I suppose that a lot of artists and writers would like to be in.

A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know.

If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think.

It's always good to have fears for your eternal soul.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

Working on 'Beyond,' I try to give an explanation to death that's different from the explanation religions have to give. So I made up my own story around all this and how life and death and souls work.

As the body fades - which it will inevitably do as we stay here on the planet - it really behooves us to wake up to who we really are. You can either go along willingly or be dragged, because it will happen.