Tig Notaro Quotes

In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely.

In a sense, having cancer takes you by the shoulders and shakes you.

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.

Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

She told me she had a note, somebody was sick.

A life can get knocked into a new orbit by a car crash, a lottery win or just a bleary-eyed consultant giving bad news in a calm voice.

I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.

When Joe Kennedy had his stroke, all our plans went out the window.

The telephone call that forever changed the lives of the Dodd family of Chicago came at noon on Thursday, June 8, 1933, as William E. Dodd sat at his desk at the University of Chicago.

From the age of 40, I went through illness for four and a half years. I tried to keep working through it as much as I could, but I was physically not able to do it as much, and if you look sick, it's hard to get a job.

I got fired from WWE and it felt like our lives got turned upside down.

When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.

I went through a significant illness in 1991 and had some major surgery, and I made up my mind that I have to get my life in order, and the first thing that I would try to accomplish was to get out of the sports business.

You see ... a man like me, a cautious man, has his life all figured out according to a pattern, and then the pattern flies apart. You run around for quite a while trying to repair it, until one day you straighten up again with an armful of broken pieces, and you see that the world has gone on without you and you can never catch up with your old life, and you must begin all over again.

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

Serkin was so sick he almost died for three days.

I was out once and had wine and I got sick to my stomach, and I vowed I would never drink again.

I am sick as a horse.

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm.

I told you I was sick.

It was the damnedest thing, life. Once you decide exactly how things are going to go, something or someone comes along and messes it all up.

The path of your life can change in an instant.

For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart.