Bears Quote by Adam Phillips

Those who are condemned to death affect sometimes a constancy and contempt for death which is only the fear of facing it; so that…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To each person, their own way of death - with dignity.

— Susan Sarandon

We offer such false hopes to people that every medical problem can be fixed even when you're starting to deal with an 80- or…

— Katy Butler

“Only the living have the privilege of saying they'll fight to the last breath, and words like conviction and resolve don't mean much to…

— Raven

“In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to die. Their…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“We, who should know better, reinforce every patient's desire to hide from the reality of his own mortality.”

— Michael J. Collins

We only really, deeply consider what our life is when we're faced with mortality on some level.

— Bryan Fuller

Many of us will not survive our tests in mortality without help from others. And just as true: in helping others we keep our…

— Kathleen H. Hughes

“Our responsibility, in medicine, is to deal with human beings as they are. People die only once.”

— Atul Gawande

Not everybody that is alive is living, dont just live because you are still breathing, instead breath because you are living, there's much to…

— Blaze Olamiday

Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves.…

— Nikola Tesla

Why should anyone - the state, the medical profession, or anyone else - presume to tell someone else how much suffering they must endure…

— Marcia Angell