Cicely Saunders Quotes

#1. Be sure to have friends who demand more of you rather than tell you why you cannot do what you want to do.

Robert Kiyosaki

#2. How people die remains in the memory of those who live on

Cicely Saunders

#3. O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life's as cheap as beast's.

William Shakespeare

#4. -a superb moon, round as a pumpkin and golden as honey, filling the rooftop world with light, and deep, mysterious shadow.

Barbara Sleigh

#5. School was a waste of time for me. I was bored and left at 16. I started taking correspondence courses at college instead. I did incredibly well. I won an award for my grades.

Amber Heard

#6. Sufering is only intolerable when nobody cares. One continually sees that faith in God and his care is made infinitely easier by faith in someone who has shown kindness and sympathy.

Cicely Saunders

#7. Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.

Alfred Shrubb

#8. Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of ideas of what constitutes a good death can even be traced to prehistory.

Cicely Saunders

#9. I'll always be here, Luce. I'm yours," he breathed, squeezing my hands, "forever.

Nicole Williams

#10. You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.

Cicely Saunders

#11. I think all of the secrets of the universe are revealed in history. We understand who we are by understanding where we've been and why we are the way we are, and where we come from.

Matt Barr

#12. American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

Diane Wakoski

#13. In order to retain a certain respect for sausages and laws, one must not see them being made.

Otto Von Bismarck

#14. Oscar reties his bandana. 'You'll see, little bro. Soon you'll be taking European vacations with Jane and the rest of the Cobalt Empire - while Farrow, here, will be stuck at comic book conventions with the geek squad.'

Becca Ritchie

#15. I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.

George Meyer