Terminal illness Quotes

We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life.

— Benedict Groeschel

“Life is a terminal illness.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself.

— Dennis Potter

It's true, I suffer a great deal-but do I suffer well? That is the question.

— Anonymous

Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.

— Michelle Dean

Caring for someone with a chronic or terminal illness can bring out the best in us.

— Anonymous

Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale.

— Kevin Rudd

If I learnt anything at all about terminal illness in my research, it's that the experience is different for everyone. I do…

— Jenny Downham

“She made a sound of frustration that no one else could hear. She’d heard that restraining expression of high emotion creates terminal…

— Victoria Danann

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their…

— Stephen Hawking

I know people who have had near-death experiences or who have experienced terminal illness and come through the other side.

— Chris Sullivan

There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that…

— Diablo Cody

“I am reminded of an image...that living with a terminal disease is like walking on a tightrope over an insanely scary abyss.…

— Nina Riggs

“Spoilers follow I started reading the third act of Hamlet, and I got about two pages in when I realized there's no…

— Megan Crewe

“Hospice deploys nurses, doctors, chaplains, and social workers to help people with a fatal illness have the fullest possible lives right now—much…

— Atul Gawande

All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master…

— Barbara Brennan

I don't mean to get dark again, but my grandfather has been battling terminal illness. And you know, he never complains. And…

— Rodney Hood

Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious…

— Dan Millman

The right to a good death is a basic human freedom. The [2006-JAN] Supreme Court's decision to uphold aid in dying allows…

— John Shelby Spong

Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on…

— Anna Quindlen

“Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. See how the light needs shadows. Look: wrinkles spread like mildew…

— David Mitchell

“Wherever I go in the West, I am struck by the great mental suffering that arises from the fear of dying, whether…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“Letter to Myself, in Remission, from Myself, Terminal" You'll come to hate your own poems, read them as pretty wisps of colorful…

— Anya Krugovoy Silver

“Once I had been diagnosed with a terminal illness, I began to view the world through two perspectives; I was starting to…

— Paul Kalanithi

“There is complete hope for terminal illness in the power of the Almighty God. The hands of Jesus are healing hands...the hands…

— Stellah Mupanduki

“I arrived back home just before midnight, and Marlboro Man met me at the car. I could hear nothing but cows and…

— Ree Drummond

“It sometimes strikes me that there is only one taboo left in young adult literature. By and large, no one complains any…

— M.T. Anderson

I had, in my legal practice, often encountered really shocking examples of the devastating impact of the costs of long-term medical care…

— Judy LaMarsh

“Being an Author who writes and advocates about tough things people go through in life; the Holy Spirit encourages me to encourage…

— Stellah Mupanduki

From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I…

— Anthony Marra

“It had seemed to us philosophically self-evident that suicide was every free person's right: a logical act when faced with terminal illness…

— Julian Barnes

“Wake up! If you knew for certain that you had a terminal illness - if you had precious little time left to…

— Dan Millman

“We are not meditating to make anything go away, any more than we are meditating to attain some special state or feeling.…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up…

— Anthony Marra

We all have somebody in our lives, that however closely related or not, is affected by terminal illness and these amazing nurses,…

— Mel Giedroyc

With terminal illness, your fate is sealed. Morally, we're more comfortable with a situation where you don't cause death, but you hasten…

— Arthur Caplan

“The pressure remains all in one direction, toward doing more, because the only mistake clinicians seem to fear is doing too little.…

— Atul Gawande