Quotes & Sayings About Terminal Disease

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease. — Lewis Grizzard

Life is some kind of a terminal disease, otherwise, why do we have more dead people than alive? — Boris Zubry

Wyatt told me once that if tenderness were a disease, I'd be terminal. — Laura Anderson Kurk

Dear Whoever-that-just-found-out-that-they-have-a-terminal-illness, don't let that put you down. Technically, we are all dying. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we die; and hope, which says the first disease is not terminal. Hope is built into the structure of our personalities, into the depths of our unconscious; it plagues us to the very moment of our death. The critical question is whether hope is self-deception, the ultimate cruelty of a cruel and tricky universe, or whether it is just possibly the imprint of reality. — Brennan Manning

Because Ford never learned to say his original name, his father eventually died of shame, which is still a terminal disease in some parts of the Galaxy. — Douglas Adams

Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted. — John Cleese

The fish is that perfect, amazing guy it can never work out with - you know, a bird and a fish may fall in love - but where would they live? . . . So the fish is your total dream guy, he's smart, he's handsome, he gets all your jokes, he loves to talk, he gives you a nine-hour orgasm and then makes you homemade chocolate chip pancakes and serves you breakfast in bed - but he lives all the way across the country and neither of you can move, or he's married, or next in line for the throne, or he has a terminal disease or something . . . the fish. — Lisa Daily

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease. — Nelson Mandela

With the loss of acute illnesses we have seen a loss of human potential and a dramatic increase in chronic 'incurable' diseases. If we want to return to health, we have to look at disease in a way that is different from the accepted medical models, because these models do not work. There has been no overall improvement in the mortality rates for most forms of cancer in the past 100 years, yet still people put their faith in drugs, surgery and radiation. Terminal patients are often offered 'new drugs' in the hope of prolonging life but are in fact being treated as little more than guinea pigs. All disease is curable, but the cure can only be found within the body. — Barbara Wren

It [ME] is one of the most disabling diseases that I care for, far exceeding HIV disease except for the terminal stages. — Daniel L. Peterson

If an Englishman asks you 'how are you?', they only expect two possible answers: 'not bad' and 'not too bad'. The former means 'I am doing great', the latter that you are about to commit suicide or have some terminal disease. With anything else, you risk being tarred and feathered. Also, if your answer is 'excellent' they take it as sarcasm. — Angela Kiss

Tell that incurable disease "Even if you refuse to leave me alone, when I am thrown to the fires, we will be destroyed together, and what will you have gained by not leaving me alone — Bangambiki Habyarimana

There is no God for sure, else how could one justify terminal diseases in small kids? — Pawan Mishra

To have Achilles's gratitude was clearly a terminal disease. — Orson Scott Card

Drug-use is a terminal disease. — Virgil Miller Newton

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have. — Nelson Mandela

Being single isn't a terminal disease."
"Try telling that to my mother. — Alexandra Potter

There is pain and suffering in this world, but there is also joy, and not just suffering here and joy there, but suffering and joy in the very same place. — Todd Neva

Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death. — William Osler

As human beings, we have a terminal disease called mortality. The current death rate is 100 percent. — Randy Alcorn

ALS is, in my opinion, the cruelest disease. At least with cancer, there's a glimmer of hope. You can come up with a game plan and you can fight. ALS is terminal. In all cases. Nobody has ever beaten ALS. I don't say this to be callous or melodramatic; indeed, I saw its effects up close. Worst of all, it affects only the body, so as people become progressively and inevitably more paralyzed, they are keenly aware of everything that is happening to them. Think about that: You are 100 percent aware of your own paralysis. The — Bryan Bishop

Her words felt like a new beginning, a turning of a page, and, ominously, rang like the beginning of a final chapter. — Darcy Leech

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have. — Laura Linney

Only you can compare a relationship to a disease and make it sound both romantic and terminal. — Penny Reid

Now we have two choices in life: have sex with the same person forever or risk a terminal disease. Either way, your life is over. — Andy Kindler

We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.
It's called sin. — Billy Graham

I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person. — Steve Gleason

Life is algorithmic. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague. Maybe it's everywhere in the population already and we never noticed. Maybe this is end-stage. Terminal without symptoms, like poor Kip."
Kanya glances at the ladyboy. Kip gives a gentle return smile. Nothing shows on her skin. Nothing shows on her body. It is not the doctor's disease she dies of. And yet ... Kanya steps away, involuntarily.
The doctor grins. "Don't look so worried. You have the same sickness. Life is, after all, inevitably fatal. — Paolo Bacigalupi

Dr. Monroe and I realized very gradually that drug addiction is a terminal disease. It is a cancer that eats families alive. — Karin Slaughter

Surely among the many outlandish successes of AMRV is that it has eradicated from human beings our original sin: hope. But I don't have AMRV, which means I still suffer from the cruelest disease of our species, terminal aspiration. — John Green

You're a disease and its terminal. — Martin Boyle