Death Quote by Katherine Dunn Download Open image “Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.” — Katherine Dunn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Death Everyday Intimate Medical Medical research Penicillin Research
“Death was a constant fact of life. The reaper struck with fire and drowning; typhus, malaria, yellow fever, and a host of other diseases;… — Barbara Weisberg Copy Share Image
“The 1930s brought what is known as the “medicalization” of death. The rise of the hospital removed from view all the gruesome sights, smells,… — Caitlin Doughty Copy Share Image
I believe often that death is good medical treatment because it can achieve what all the medical advances and technology cannot achieve today, and… — Christiaan Barnard Copy Share Image
“Medicine no doubt, has helped us a lot to cure so many diseases, but death still remains an incurable one!” — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
The romantic treatment of death asserts that people were made singular, made more interesting, by their illnesses. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There are a ton of medical dramas out there dealing with life and death. — Erica Durance Copy Share Image
Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn't one of them. — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
“Death is universal. The rituals associated with it, however, vary substantially—and are greatly influenced by their religious and cultural context.” — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
A boxing gym is a place where men are allowed to be kind to one another. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My own theory about the phlegmatic qualities and properties of the English is the mountain of pure white sugar hydrocarbons they consume every day… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Sometimes we followed the crops, doing migrant labor. We did several years of tenant farming in Western Oregon starting in the early '50s. Later,… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
My handwriting was nothing to write home about, and I had this idea that calligraphy was like taking Latin in high school: that it… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“There are those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behavior and claim… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
Only a lunatic would want to be president. These lunatics are created deliberately by those who wish to be presided over. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
In a really good, closely matched situation, the style of the boxer is every bit as explicit and specific to him as a painter's… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
But the animation has become very good, and I think that a movie is not a book, and a book is not a movie. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
With multiplayer, permanent death, and an ever-changing world to explore and conquer, 'A Valley Without Wind' might be the place you're looking for if… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“What did you see?” she asked gently. His brow furrowed, as if he could not understand the question. Then his eyes turned to the… — J. Anthony Torino Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I practice Dying--every night-- But have not learned to, still-- Though Talented--by Mortal bones-- For such a common Skill.” — Alan W. Powers Copy Share Image
“You must understand the pain and grief of losing someone is nothing more than a function of survival.” — Steven Cooper Copy Share Image
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image