Terminal Patient Quotes & Sayings

I think Tolstoy had an unbelievably complicated relationship with women. — Twyla Tharp

We have created a man with not one brain but two ... This new brain is intended to control the biological brain ... The patient's biological brain is the peripheral terminal
the only peripheral terminal
for the new computer ... And therefore the patient's biological brain, indeed his whole body, has become a terminal for the new computer. We have created a man who is one single, large, complex computer terminal. The patient is a read-out device for the new computer, and is helpless to control the readout as a TV screen is helpless to control the information presented on it. — Michael Crichton

A study led by the Harvard researcher Nicholas Christakis asked the doctors of almost five hundred terminally ill patients to estimate how long they thought their patient would survive, and then followed the patients. Sixty-three per cent of doctors overestimated survival time. Just seventeen per cent underestimated it. The average estimate was five hundred and thirty per cent too high. And, the better the doctors knew their patients, the more likely they were to err. — Atul Gawande

Art and life really are the same, and both can only be about a spiritual journey, a path towards a re-union with a supreme creator, with god, with the divine; and this is true no matter how unlikely, how strange, how unorthodox, one's particular life path might appear to one's self or others at any given moment. — Genesis P-Orridge

Boys were careless. It was a wonder any ever grew up to be men. — Stephen King

Welcome to the first ever Selection Variety Show, starring a bunch of losers competing for your attention. — Kiera Cass

You stackin cheddar cause you working at the burger place. — Inspectah Deck

It's easier when the patient is ninety-four, in the last stages of dementia, with a severe brain bleed. But for someone like me - a thirty-six-year-old given a diagnosis of terminal cancer - there aren't really words. — Paul Kalanithi

But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm than good. — Sheri Fink

I've never really compared myself to anyone who's a big star - I'm not trying to be a fashion icon or get famous. — Katy B

A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun. — Missy Franklin

Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part and does not believe in the play. — Mignon McLaughlin

When you become defensive, blame others, and do not accept and surrender to the moment, your life meets resistance. Any time you encounter resistance, recognize that if you force the situation, the resistance will only increase. You don't want to stand rigid like a tall oak that cracks and collapses in the storm. Instead, you want to be flexible, like a reed that bends with the storm and survives. — Deepak Chopra

The room was utterly silent. Now there is the silence you encounter on entering a grand manor. And there is the silence that comes of too few people in too big a space. But this was a different quality of silence altogether. A ponderous, oppressive silence. A silence reminiscent, though it took me a while to put my finger on it, of the silence that hangs around a terminal patient. A silence pregnant with the presentiment of death. The air faintly musty and ominous. — Haruki Murakami

A woman's journal is like a door to her soul; men can't open it, but they are definitely a part of it! — J.D. Stroube

Just because some people actually work for their money doesn't mean they are beneath you. — Kevin Kwan