Marian Keyes Quotes

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

The body is a damn hard thing to kill.

Death is in truth an illness from which we recover

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

But we survived, didn’t we? That makes it an adventure. If you get killed it’s a tragedy.

I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting.

You don't think you'll live past it and you don't really. The person you were is gone. But the half of you that's still alive wakes up one day and takes over again.

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

We are survivors from the moment of diagnosis.

I want to live," he said, "So I have to die.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

Cancer is not for sissies.

Yes, I had cancer. Right now, I am totally clean. The only realities in life are that you are born, and that you die.

None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.

Hope is to a man as a bladder to a learning swimmer--it keeps him from sinking in the bosom of the waves, and by that help he may attain the exercise; but yet it many times makes him venture beyond his height, and then if that breaks, or a storm rises, he drowns without recovery. How many would die, did not hope sustain them! How many have died by hoping too much! This wonder we find in Hope, that she is both a flatterer and a true friend.

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.