Best Terminally Ill Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father, and always with the sense of their strangeness. They sit and speak, and are spoken to, and listen, and even smile, but in spirit they have already moved away from us and there is no way we can enter their shadowy no-man's-land.”

Death Sadness Dying Terminally Ill

Book:The Children of Men

Source: The Children of Men

“Just as the desperate, terminally ill cancer patient often turns to expensive placebos for an imaginary chance at more life, the desperate, terminally alive sad people turn to expensive placebos for a chance to imagine a decent life.”

Sad Desperate Placebo Terminally Ill

Book:Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide

Source: Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide

“We are all terminally mortal, but looking after each other will help us to become part of the immortal divine.”

Immortal Terminally Ill Looking After Each Other

Book:Blythe

Source: Blythe

“But he gave no greater gift than the one he offered me shortly before he died, and it was a gift that answers for all time the question of whether it is rational or appropriate to strive for “ambitious” therapy in those who are terminally ill. When I visited him in the hospital he was so weak he could barely move, but he raised his head, squeezed my hand, and whispered, “Thank you. Thank you for saving my life.”

Life Death Terminally Ill

Book:Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

Source: Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

“A woman (Terri Schiavo) was healthy. There was brain damage, there was no question. But from a health point of view, she was not terminally ill.”

Views Brain Healthy Ill Point Of View Damage Terminally Ill

Author:Michele Bachmann

“Depression and hopelessness are not the only reasons terminally ill patients wish to end their lives. Many individuals see nothing undignified about choosing to end their lives at the time and manner of their choosing - and many view such a choice as the meaningful culmination of a good life.”

Ends Reason Choices Individual Wish Views Patient Ill Meaningful Good Life Hopelessness Culmination Terminally Ill

Author:Jacob M. Appel

“Theres very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time.”

Kids Tears Disease Ill Terminally Ill

Author:Tyler Farr

“When you spend as much time as I do with wounded warriors and their families, and terminally ill kids and their families, you are humbled and powerfully inspired by their courage and positive energy to live your life to the absolute best you can everyday. It will wake you up really fast to never stop believing.”

Believe Kids Energy Absolutes Inspired Everyday Ill Warrior Wounded Live Your Life Positive Energy Wakes You Never Stop Believing Terminally Ill Wounded Warrior

Author:Ted Nugent

“Circulating through the children's ward and seeing terminally ill kids, heads shaved, smiling and having a ball despite the tubes and needles sticking into them, I thought: What do I have to worry about? If God takes me, at least I've lived for 35 years.”

Ifs Years Children Kids Worry Seeing Balls Ill Despite Take Me Needles Tubes Terminally Ill

Author:Eric Davis

“None of us really either know the circumstances of our death or are likely to exert as much control over it as we would like to, but we can certainly have a little more say in it if we are terminally ill than we have at the moment. That's the element of dignity, but sure, life is very hard to organise even when you are fit and healthy.”

Ifs Knows Littles Hard Moments Life Is Fit Circumstances Healthy Elements Dignity Ill Over It Terminally Ill

Author:Ian Mcewan

“By more than two to one Americans do not consider what Kevorkian did, injecting a terminally ill patient with legal drugs at the patient's request, to be the same as murder. You may want to note that laws are not supposed to be enforced on the basis of public opinion polls.”

Want May Two Law Opinion Drug Bases Murder Notes Patient Ill Supposed To Be Public Opinion Polls Request Opinion Polls Terminally Ill

Author:Dan Rather

“We all just realized that I am terminally ill and I'm dying and I would just prefer to die with less pain and less suffering.”

Pain Suffering Dies Dying Ill Just Realized Terminally Ill

Author:Brittany Maynard

“The families who chose me to take their terminally ill kids on their last hunts in life many times over the years know and love the real Ted Nugent. That they decide I'm good enough to take part in such a spiritual and emotional moment in their lives proves that I am good enough.”

Knows Years Real Enough Moments Kids Lasts Spiritual Emotional Prove And Love Ill Good Enough Hunts Terminally Ill

Author:Ted Nugent

“I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.”

Earth Mother Choices Religious Leader Support Praying Citizens Politician Dignity And Love Ill I Pray Mother Earth Religious Leaders Lawmakers Departing Terminally Ill Dignity And Love

Author:Desmond Tutu

“The world of the terminally ill is the world of neither the living nor the dead. I have watched others since I watched my father, and always with a sense of their strangeness. They sit and speak, and are spoken to, and listen, and even smile, but in spirit they have already moved away from us and there is no way we can enter their shadowy no-man’s-land.”

Men World Way Spirit Father Speak Land Moved Ill Strangeness Terminally Ill

Book:The Children of Men

Source: The Children of Men

“Suppose there were groups of secularists at hospitals who went round the terminally ill and urged them to adopt atheism: 'Don't be a mug all your life. Make your last days the best ones. People might suppose this was in poor taste.”

People Might Lasts Poor Groups Atheism Taste Rounds Ill Hospitals Last Day Mug Terminally Ill Poor Taste

Author:Christopher Hitchens