Terminally Ill Quotes

“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.”
― Sarah Perry, 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.”
― John Kramer, 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.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

“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.”
― P.D. James, The Children of Men