Palliative Quotes

“I have reached the point in life where I no longer accept false hopes, the palliative care of counterfeit wisdom.”

— Benjamin Anastas

Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

— Nicolas Chamfort

I believe we should support people to live, and I am therefore in favour of good quality palliative care.

— Nicola Sturgeon

Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

— Silas Weir Mitchell

Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot…

— Sigmund Freud

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

— Samuel Johnson

Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.

— Judy Gold

Palliative care is something that you don't know you need until you're in the space where you need it, either from someone…

— Jacky Rosen

“Palliative care isn’t only for the dying: any patient with serious symptoms or communication needs can benefit. But for patients approaching the…

— Jessica Nutik Zitter

First-class delivery of children's palliative care is life-changing. When families are confronted with the shattering news that their children have a life-limiting…

— Kate Middleton

Few years ago when I visited a palliative care centre in Chennai for the first time, it completely moved me. It's an…

— Chinmayi

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order…

— Sigmund Freud