Terminal Patients Quotes

#1. But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm than good.

Sheri Fink

#2. Sometimes the media gives us the impression that we are terminal patients, because of problems of global warmth or the ozone layer. And the people, they don't understand that they can could change this situation for the better if they could act locally in a city.

Jaime Lerner

#3. Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

Annie Dillard

#4. I gave up the unequal struggle against what appeared to be in my fate, indeed, I welcomed it with more affection. As one embraces a foe one can't defeat and I felt liberated.

Alberto Moravia

#5. I would wish that people would accept people for who they are, not be judgemental, allow people to live their lives and enjoy themselves and that would be my wish for people.

John Barrowman

#6. A maid that laughs is half taken.

John Ray

#7. A scientific theory that laughter and humor increase the odds of survival among patients with terminal illnesses?

Suzanne Brockmann

#8. To refrain and desist from interfering with terminal cancer patients, in their use of Laetrile acquired through the 'Affidavit System.

Luther L. Bohanon

#9. Life is a terminal condition. Were all going to die. Cancer patients just have more information, but we all, in some ways, wait for permission to live.

Kris Carr

#10. Depression can seem worse than terminal cancer, because most cancer patients feel loved and they have hope and self-esteem.

David D. Burns

#11. With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten it. We think that's a bright line. Comparing the U.S. with Switzerland, where assisted suicide is legal for patients suffering 'intolerable health problems.'

Arthur Caplan

#12. I think my parents were happy that I'd gone to university and gotten a degree in history so they thought, 'Well if acting doesn't work for him, he can always become a history teacher or something.' Fortunately, the acting worked out.

Derek Jacobi

#13. Pornography is one of the branches of literature - science fiction is another - aiming at disorientation, at psychic dislocation.

Susan Sontag

#14. For those of us who write, it is necessary to scrutinize not only the truth of what we speak, but the truth of that language by which we speak it.

Audre Lorde

#15. Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

William Osler

#16. 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