Nancy Gibbs Quotes

Since my accident I am a little more mindful of the suffering of other people.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

I bashed myself. I cut myself. I caught on fire. I fell: I had been myopically focused on peeling garlic, and hadn't noticed a bin of beef at my feet until I walked into it.

Despair often breeds disease.

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.

The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.

A hospital alone shows what war is.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Life is an incurable disease.

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.

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

I know that I'm very lucky to be alive. For 35 or 40 years I've spilt my blood and broke my bones and spent years in hospitals.

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

I was in Liverpool city center and I thought I broke one of my toes, just by jumping on buses. I put my arm in the door on the outside, and the bus just drives away with me naked.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

Cancer doesn't care if you have suffered before.

Cancer is something that touches everyone's lives.

When I had my injury, I had gotten hit, and it hurt like hell.

When I was very young, my father had an accident. He fell down a flight of stairs, fractured his skull, and lost sight in one eye.

It's time for people to hold these athletes accountable for their actions.

I fell off a wall in Cockermouth when I was 18. The slate on the top of the wall was loose and I tried to jump up and sit on it. I ended up falling backwards and the tile ended up falling back onto my hand.

Being injured helps you appreciate your health in general.

There are only so many ways to experience pain. There are an almost limitless number of ways to inflict it, but the pain itself, initially vividly distinct in all its specifications, becomes, inevitably, just pain.