Quotes About Death Hospice

#1. 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

#2. You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.

Isaac Mizrahi

#3. No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.

Wallace Stegner

#4. Suffering can precipitate creativity, liberating the creator through inspiration and then many available channels of human communication, and therefore there is value in suffering.

Brent Green

#5. There is one essential requirement for being close with a dying person: the letting go of self-concern.

Robert Martensen

#6. Queenie Hennessy - "I am here to die."
Sister Mary Inconnue - "Pardon me but you are here to live until you die. There is a significant difference.

Rachel Joyce

#7. I feel like, to have a career as an artist, you don't need to meet the same criteria as you do to win a singing competition. They're two very different animals.

Judith Hill

#8. Spending moments with another in earnest presence is one of the simple ways we can show unconditional love. It is the memories created from these impressions that survive after all else passes.

Molly Friedenfeld

#9. If we listen and observe carefully the dying can teach us important things that we need to learn in preparing for the end of our own life's journey.

Robert L. Wise

#10. Yes, I'm afraid the life over here is very different from N.Z. but oh boy it's a grand life.

Jack Lovelock

#11. Because what the fashion industry loves, it woos - then swallows whole.

Robin Givhan

#12. A paradigm shift of viewing palliative care or hospice as a gift instead of seeing it as giving up has the potential to change the way we experience advanced age.

Lisa J. Shultz

#13. Google and Accurint can make you feel very smart, but the best stories come when you're out in the field.

Jonathan Franzen

#14. My father was in terrible pain towards the end because of his bed sores, and he did go into hospice, and I think that was better in some ways. You know, I think his death was peaceful, and it was all right. He was just in terrible pain.

Roz Chast

#15. The kindness sent from one compassionate soul to another during the time of loss of one held so dear allows the sorrow-filled heart to open wide, filling the space of emptiness that grief may have created with a renewed sense of peace, compassion, and love.

Molly Friedenfeld

#16. Death should not be viewed as a medical failure but as a natural conclusion to life.

Christine Cowgill

#17. There is nothing in nature which approximates to the idea of a hospice.

Jim Crumley