Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
— Lewis Grizzard
Valuable Terminal Disease quotations
Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer.
Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.
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.
The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.
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.
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.
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.
Theres very few things that tear me up and get me, but kids, especially terminally ill kids or kids with diseases... gets me every time.
When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do.
You give yourself permission. 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.