Larry Kramer Quotes

AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

When you go through a long illness, certainly one of cancer, there's a certain release from it and relief that it has come to an end, because the suffering can be unbearable, as opposed to an abrupt stop to life when they go out the door and there's a loved one who never comes home because of some accident.

Most of my friends are dead. I watched friends die in my arms at 5, 6, 8. When I grew up, the rest of my friends died of AIDS.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

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.

What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering after you make the exit.

I came of age during AIDS and the terror of that and the sadness and the death and the overwhelming despair.

There's worse things in life than death.

Everybody's darkness is different. My darkness came from my mom having pancreatitis and almost dyin'. And what I noticed was that the darkness ain't goin' nowhere.

When they told me I had cancer, I thought I was going to die.

To me, Columbine is just as awful as Vietnam, and it's just as awful as anything else.

Suicide doesn't solve your problems. It only makes them infinitely, un-countably worse.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

Despair often breeds disease.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.

Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

War taught me that not everything is glamorous.

Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.