Terminal Quotes - Page 2

• Having a go at kids with a terminal illness is really beyond the pale, absolutely beyond the pale.

  Kevin Rudd

  Kids, Illness, Pale

  Kevin Rudd's remarks during the press conference at the Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au. April 6, 2009.

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• The U.S. dollar is in terminal decline. America is tragically bankrupt, unable to pay its lenders without printing the dollars to do so, and enmeshed in an economic depression. The clock is ticking until the dollar faces a crisis of confidence like every other bubble before it.

  Peter Schiff

  Clock Is Ticking, America, Dollars

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• I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

  Stephen Hawking

  Pain, Thinking, Should Have

  "Stephen Hawking backs right to assisted suicide", www.foxnews.com. September 17, 2013.

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• All suffering is caused by the illusion of separateness, which generates fear and self-hatred, which eventually causes illness. You are the master of your life. You can do much more than you thought you could, including cure yourself of a "terminal illness".

  Barbara Brennan

  Self, Hatred, Suffering

  Barbara Ann Brennan (2011). “Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field”, p.6, Bantam

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• Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel - you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

  William S. Burroughs

  Crazy, Pits, Fool

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• Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Order, Profound, Insight

  Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Questioning the Millennium”, p.62, Harvard University Press

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• In his mind Vaughan saw the whole world dying in a simultaneous automobile disaster, millions of vehicles hurled together in a terminal congress of spurting loins and engine coolant.

  J. G. Ballard

  Mind, Dying, Together

  J. G. Ballard (2017). “Crash: The Collector’s Edition”, p.38, HarperCollins UK

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• I may be just an empty flesh terminal reliant on technology for all my ideas, memories and relationships, but I am confident that all of that everything that makes me a unique human being is still out there somewhere, safe in a theoretical storage space owned by giant, multinational corporations.

  Stephen Colbert

  Memories, Unique, Technology

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• God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

  Orson Scott Card

  Stupid, Way, Causes

  Orson Scott Card (2009). “Xenocide: Volume Three of the Ender Quintet”, p.255, Macmillan

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• Love is the worst earthquake there is. Can crush you to the thickness of your bones. Love can be like cancer sometimes. Terminal. It can make you vomit. It can make you want to cut it out. It can take you over against your will.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Crush, Cancer, Cutting

  Francesca Lia Block (2008). “Quakeland”, p.96, Manic D Press

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• So I got off the plane and I forget to take off my seat-belt and I'm dragging the plane through the terminal... The wings are knocking people over.

  Steven Wright

  Wings, People, Forget

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• We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the capitalistic experiment. Once we came to understand the simpl...truth that earth's resources were limited, in fact soon to run out, the whole capitalistic illusion fell to pieces. Those of us who spoke this truth were denounced as heretics, as enemies of the prevailing economic faith. Like religious Dissenters of an earlier day.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Running, Religious, Enemy

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• Any combination of a 250-pound Mexican and LSD-25 is a potentially terminal menace for anything it can reach

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Mexican, Pounds, Lsd

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.507, Simon and Schuster

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• Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?

  Annie Dillard

  Writing, Dying, Patient

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

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• His crush went from exciting to depressing, as if he'd gone from the first blush of infatuation to the terminal nostalgia of a former lover without even the temporary relief of an actual relationship in between.

  Lev Grossman

  Crush, Depressing, Relief

  Lev Grossman (2015). “The Magicians Trilogy”, p.57, Penguin

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• There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

  Nelson Mandela

  Fear, Equality, Waking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The lesson here is very simple. But it is striking how often it is overlooked. We are so caught in the myths of the best and the brightest and the self-made that we think outliers spring naturally from the earth. We look at the young Bill Gates and marvel that our world allowed that thirteen-year-old to become a fabulously successful entrepreneur. But that's the wrong lesson. Our world only allowed one thirteen-year-old unlimited access to a time sharing terminal in 1968. If a million teenagers had been given the same opportunity, how many more Microsofts would we have today?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Teenager, Spring

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• It's not gray," Clary felt compelled to point out. "It's green." "If there was such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood," said Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Childhood, Green, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.225, Simon and Schuster

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• Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Presidential, Politics, Administration

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1961). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1960-1961”, p.930, Best Books on

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• ...And nostalgia is a cancer. Nostalgia will fill your heart up with tumors. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what you are. You're just an old fart dying of terminal nostalgia.

  Sherman Alexie

  Cancer, Heart, Dying

  Sherman Alexie (2012). “Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories”, p.116, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

  W. H. Auden

  Addiction, Damnation, Sin

  A Certain World (1970) "Hell"

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• Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries of aircraft about to take to the skies. These screens implied a feeling of infinite and immediate possibility: they suggested the ease with which we might impulsively approach a ticket desk and, within a few hours, embark for a country where the call to prayer rang out over shuttered whitewashed houses, where we understood nothing of the language and where no one knew our identities.

  Alain de Botton

  Country, Prayer, Airports

  Alain de Botton (2010). “A Week at the Airport: A Heathrow Diary”, p.22, Profile Books

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• Life is a terminal disease, and it is sexually transmitted.

  John Cleese

  Disease, Life Is, Sexually

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• The desire to be seen as superior and singular- and, conversely, but similarly, inferior and individual, is a big topic...They have a term for the syndrome- it is called terminal uniqueness...we all refuse to be part of the crowd, to walk in the middle of the road in the safety of others. We all think were special. But the problem is, as I point out to Dr. Singer all the time, I actually am special.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Thinking, Safety, Special

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• Wouldn't it be great,as Scott Peck suggests, if all medical students had to undergo the symptoms and feeling of a spectrum of illnesses. From acute infections to terminal cancer - and Kuru, the laughing sickness. Just a month for each exposure, controlled of course, and a good heavy dose of excruciating pain. So they'll know what that feels like.

  William S. Burroughs

  Pain, Cancer, Laughing

  William S. Burroughs, James Grauerholz (2001). “Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs”, p.165, Grove Press

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