Palliation Quotes & Sayings

Its palliation is a daily task, its cure a fervent hope. - William Castle, describing leukemia in 1950 — Siddhartha Mukherjee

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation. — Rudolf Virchow

The syndrome known as life is too diffuse to admit of palliation. For every symptom that is eased, another is made worse. The horse leech's daughter is a closed system. Her quantum of wantum cannot vary. — Samuel Beckett

Life is a malady in which sleep soothes us every sixteen hours; it is a palliation; death is the remedy. — Nicolas Chamfort

Women feel the humiliation of their petty distinctions of sex precisely as the black man feels those of color. It is no palliation of our wrongs to say that we are not socially ostracized, so long as we are politically ostracized as he is not. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

With therapeutic Qigong when there is no cure, there is palliation. — Chan Siok Fong

When a friend is carried to his grave, we at once find excuses for every weakness, and palliation of every fault. We recollect a thousand endearments, which before glided off our minds without impression, a thousand favors unrepaid, a thousand duties unperformed; and wish, vainly wish, for his return, not so much that we may receive as that we may bestow happiness, and recompense that kindness which before we never understood. — Samuel Johnson