King Diamond Quotes

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.

The doctor told Phil, my then husband, that my condition was really bad news. They had found an artery tearing and said I could die. They said they could try to patch it up but it could go horribly wrong. It all turned out okay in the end but it was touch and go.

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

I was only 13 years old when I was forced to face the fragility of my own life. A routine surgery landed me in a medically induced coma for two weeks with a mere 1% chance of surviving. But survive I did.

I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.

I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

When I was born ... the doctor came out to the waiting room and said to my father ... I'm very sorry. We did everything we could ... but he pulled through.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it.

Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains some of the most harrowing pages he has ever written. It's here that King describes the traffic accident that nearly killed him in June 1999.

I looked Death right in the face.

The patient is in intensive care but still alive.

When my little son, Prince, had health issues as a baby, we were told that he had a 20 percent chance of survival.

I died. Which is fantastic, because I have died already; I have been there and come back. I am completely recovered, thank you.

We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.

Spotting sepsis is one of the most difficult things to do early and the urgency is critical to whether people survive.

When doctors tell you that your only hope for survival is 14 straight days of intense chemotherapy, 24 hours a day, you sit there, and you count down the 336 hours. You see, each day is a blessing.

I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis.

I did die once, for seven seconds, after a burst appendix.

I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.

Today something interesting happened. I died.

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.