Slow Death Quotes

“You smoke?”
“Smoke? Do I look like a fucking idiot?”
― Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon

“My father was a doctor,' she says, 'a very kind man. He died in the early '70s, relatively young.' She taps the cigarette packet on the table. 'Of lung cancer.'
'Oh.'
'But the thing about that is,' she says as she exhales, 'it doesn't take very long at all.”
― Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall

“Clinics and Hospitals are courts where you get accused of allowing foreign nutrients to invade your immune system. You plead guilty of the xenophobic attacks and then get sentenced to medication for your life, not knowing that healer is the ground you stand on, grounds that breeds life.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“Beauty is akin to poison. Poison that smoothers us, intoxicates us and then slowly kills us.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Dying in Champoussin