Alan Grayson Quotes

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.

There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

In Khmer we have a saying that when one is both quite sick and old there remains only one thing, that you die.

I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

You can't worry if it's cold; you can't worry if it's hot; you only worry if you get sick. Because then if you don't get well, you die.

Life is an incurable disease.

When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. There were really weird things happening with my nervous system and my heart and stuff, and it didn't look like I was gonna make it, so I was writing really fast, and then I couldn't write anymore.

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

The natives [Eskimos] were sick in almost every tent … and were in a very deplorable condition. …. The pity of it was that nothing was being done for their relief…. If nothing is done soon, the Eskimos will continue to become stupefied and utterly helpless and lie down to die.

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.

Everyone gets sick, and everyone has to go.

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

In the world according to Garp, we are all terminal cases

It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

There are five things which no one is able to accomplish in this world: first, to cease growing old when he is growing old; second, to cease being sick; third, to cease dying; fourth, to deny dissolution when there is dissolution; fifth, to deny non-being.