Terminal Diagnosis Quotes

#1. A terminal diagnosis can really mess with your head. Honestly, it makes you want to run away to the moon. Many ALS patients want to fade away quietly. This was not for me.

Steve Gleason

#2. If any lesson from war is to be learned, John, it must be always to prepare for the unexpected and face the unthinkable.

Christopher Fowler

#3. It's easier when the patient is ninety-four, in the last stages of dementia, with a severe brain bleed. But for someone like me - a thirty-six-year-old given a diagnosis of terminal cancer - there aren't really words.

Paul Kalanithi

#4. When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!'

Mikhail Tal

#5. My university education had been a shallow and superficial enterprise. The central driving forces of the economy I lived in were either ignored or left vague, to the point of meaningless.

Herbert Schiller

#6. There's been this strange irony to my whole life. All my original bandmates have died, when I was the most wild and most reckless of us all. But I'm still here.

Nile Rodgers

#7. If in your heart you make a manger for his birth then God will once again become a child on earth.

Angelus Silesius