Quotes About Death Doctor Who

#1. As a doctor, as well as a mother and a world citizen, I wish to practice the ultimate form of preventive medicine by ridding the earth of these technologies that propagate disease, suffering, and death.

Helen Caldicott

#2. I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#3. Only suckers worry. But he can knock the worry if he takes a Scotch and soda. The hell with what the doctor says. So he rings for one and the steward comes sleepily, and as he drinks it, the speculator is not a sucker now; except for death.

Ernest Hemingway,

#4. As a Christian, as an individual, as a doctor, I am absolutely opposed to the death penalty.

Joycelyn Elders

#5. I know his death could have been avoided with a doctor who was really on top of it. He had so much life in him. It was wrong. I played my way through that first show and did "Old Man" for Ben (Keith) at the end. I looked over to my right and he was out there somewhere, but not next to me anymore.

Neil Young

#6. To say that Doctor Tenace loved death is probably too much, but decay, especially mental or soul decay fascinated him. He was hypnotised by the last minutes of all sorts of living creatures struggling with death.

Yves Bernas

#7. The illness of a doctor is always worse than the illnesses of his patients.The patients only feel, but the doctor, as well as feeling, has a pretty good idea of the destructive effect of the disease on his constitution.This is a case in which knowledge brings death nearer.

Maxim Gorky

#8. Seasickness ... is caused ... by the disturbance ... to the inner ear " he said. " You just need ... to ... look ... at ... the horizon ... " His last words disappeared as he vomited violently over the side of the boat. "What's wrong " "Doctor Death is seasick.

Kate Forsyth

#9. Omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.

Jerome Groopman

#10. Every woman deserves the simple dignity of dying in a bed with clean sheets and an electric light at hand.'
-spoken by Sara, the missionary doctor, during a moment of indignation.

Joe Niemczura

#11. Don't say nothin' wotever about it, ma'am,' replied Sam. 'I only assisted natur, ma'am; as the doctor said to the boy's mother, after he'd bled him to death.

Charles Dickens

#12. There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

Zig Ziglar

#13. A man with an excruciatingly painful condition wrote me and told me that his doctor said that the only cure for what he has is death, and he might want to consider suicide. What do you say to him? I doubt the, "Hey let's go get some coffee and talk" thing is going to be at all helpful.

Henry Rollins

#14. An ignorant doctor is the aide-de-camp of death.

Avicenna

#15. This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

Jacob M. Appel

#16. Believe me, Doctor, if your life ends in suddenness you will be glad it did, and if it does not you will wish it had. You will want suddenness, Doctor.

Tea Obreht

#17. A doctor's mission should not be to prevent death, but more importantly it should be to improve the quality of life.

Abhijit Naskar

#18. The Governor was strong upon
The Regulation Act:
The Doctor said that Death was but
A scientific fact:
And twice a day the Chaplain called,
And left a little tract.

Oscar Wilde

#19. I can't do anything to death, doctor's orders.

Woody Allen

#20. The celebrated Parisian doctor Professor Xavier Bichat developed a fully materialist theory of the human body and mind in his lectures Physiological Researches on Life and Death, translated into English in 1816. Bichat defined life bleakly as 'the sum of the functions by which death is resisted

Richard Holmes

#21. If all power corrupts, then a doctor, who literally holds life and death in his hands, must be at particular risk.

P.D. James

#22. The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.

Patch Adams

#23. Where there's a doctor it's always a bad sign. Even when they are not doing the killing themselves it means a death is close, and in that way they are like ravens or crows.

Margaret Atwood

#24. Old age and death are in the natural course of things. There is nothing a doctor can do about them.

Muso Soseki

#25. I insert the bevel and draw back the plunger. I know that the syringe contains more than sodium chloride-that even as the toxic contents fill my fathers veins, he is sharing with me his final gift: the horror and thrill of saving lives.

Jacob M. Appel

#26. Some guy once told me that skydiving is like cutting your throat and seeing if you can get to the doctor before you bleed to death.

Brock Yates

#27. My father was a doctor so I was around death all my life. So, I was very used to it because he was a f-king doctor.

Joan Rivers

#28. Call me a nature nut. I love nature. I like to walk in nature, I use natural remedies, and I practice natural medicine as a naturopathic doctor in Los Angeles. - Willow McQuade, ND star of Death Drops: A Natural Remedies Mystery.

Chrystle Fiedler

#29. By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

William Shakespeare

#30. Medicine no doubt, has helped us a lot to cure so many diseases, but death still remains an incurable one!

Mehek Bassi

#31. As a resident, my highest ideal was not saving lives -- everyone dies eventually -- but guiding a patient or family to an understanding of death or illness.

Paul Kalanithi

#32. At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.

Sally Mann

#33. Tell me, Doctor, are you afraid of death?"
"I guess it depends on how you die.

Haruki Murakami

#34. Don't interfere!" The Doctor silenced her angrily. "I cannot will my own destruction.

Peter Grimwade

#35. I said to the doctor, who was with us daily. 'He's got a wonderful will to live, hasn't he?'
'Would you put it like that? I should say a great fear of death.'
'Is there a difference?'
'Oh dear, yes. He doesn't derive any strength from his fear, you know. It's wearing him out.

Evelyn Waugh

#36. My father was a doctor,' she says, 'a very kind man. He died in the early '70s, relatively young.' She taps the cigarette packet on the table. 'Of lung cancer.'
'Oh.'
'But the thing about that is,' she says as she exhales, 'it doesn't take very long at all.

Anna Funder

#37. I've noticed that about your people, Doctor. You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours.

Leonard Nimoy

#38. All you have to do is to hold them until the cops get here, and then you can bleed to death in peace. Or get to a doctor. Whichever hurts less.

Jim Butcher

#39. A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor, will be known only after death; and even then not without an autopsy will you examine it with exacting pains. But rare are those among the extremely busy clinicians who are willing or capable of doing this correctly.

Herman Boerhaave

#40. A great doctor kills more people than a great general.

Gottfried Leibniz

#41. Despite their authoritarian light show, those ice-cream trucks of death couldn't do any more for Perkus's murdered infatuation, his crushed crush, than could keening Greek chorus, or a moaning witch doctor.

Jonathan Lethem

#42. A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

George Bernard Shaw

#43. Only the doctor and the judge have the right to inflict the death penalty without receiving the same.

Philemon

#44. There is alas no law against incompetency; no striking example is made. They learn by our bodily jeopardy and make experiments until the death of the patients, and the doctor is the only person not punished for murder.

Pliny The Elder