Make it visual
Quote image
Preparing image…
Right-click or press and hold the image to save it.
Quotation
Quote by John Bostock
I am grateful that I went through it because you see life in a different way when you’re that close to death.
Explore the idea
Understanding this quote
The speaker is thankful for having endured an experience that brought them close to death. That nearness changed how they view life, giving them a different perspective afterward. The quote does not describe what the experience was; it focuses on the lasting change in outlook that came from going through it.
Source & trust
About this quotation
- Source
- The Guardian
- Format
- Official Statement
Explore the idea
Topics
Join the community
Keep meaningful words close.
Save quotes, follow people and topics, join conversations, and publish words of your own.
“To me, it’s when I’m riding down the road in my car and it feels like it did when I was 15 years old, and I don’t have to think about it and I just like it.”
“I always want to push the envelope and make a sound that has not been done before.”
“A language is much more profound than that.”
Read quote“There is no such thing as perfection.”
“Gratefulness will always bring you good things.”
“It's partly based on my personal experience. It's about a close female friend I had when I was a teenager.”
“This, and whatsoever I myself observed, after attaining years of discretion, for thirty or forty years, I laid up in the strong box (of my memory), and that I have written.”
“Writing is a renaming of the world.”
“I was not a youngster, stirred by momentary enthusiasm, and my determination was based on much practical work in Siberia in hard and trying circumstances.”
“Cuando la película tiene un mensaje, cuando tiene corazón o te hace sentir algo, te la llevas contigo y la amas mucho más que si solo fuera risas.”
The Cartographer of Small Repairs
In a narrow river-city workshop, a quiet mechanic teaches children that repairing something does not always mean erasing the marks of its journey.
Read Story