Terminal Quotes - Page 3

• A kiss isn't terminal." "It is the way you do it.

  Nora Roberts

  Kissing, Way

  Nora Roberts (2009). “Genuine Lies”, p.178, Bantam

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• Consider the lilies of the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the backyard with the sun on your face. Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

  Anna Quindlen

  Happiness, Baby, Passion

  Anna Quindlen (2002). “A Short Guide to a Happy Life”, Arrow/Children's (a Division of Random House Group)

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• We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Reason, Craziness, Enormous

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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• The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity - love. And the story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.

  Helen Hayes

  Love, Heart, Important

  Guideposts, January 1960.

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• Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover either for grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much-cherished aspect of academic freedom.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Freedom, People, Criticism

  "H.L. Mencken: The Baltimore Oracle" by John Kenneth Galbraith, www.washingtonpost.com. September 14, 1980.

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• They called it the Terminal Bar but they had no idea that like twenty years later the place'd be filling up with terminal cases.

  Tom Waits

  Filling Up, Years, Ideas

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• You all know I have terminal cancer - and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on.

  Tom McCall

  War, Cancer, Stress

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• Under neoliberalism everyone has to negotiate their fate alone, bearing full responsibility for problems that are often not of their own doing. The implications politically, economically and socially for young people are disastrous and are contributing to the emergence of a generation of young people who will occupy a space of social abandonment and terminal exclusion.

  Henry Giroux

  Responsibility, Fate, Space

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Suicide, Stars, Dark

  Robert Charles Wilson (2011). “Spin”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• Treating only terminal cancer patients, the Rand (anti-cancer) vaccine produced objective improvement in 35% of 600 patients while another 30% demonstrated subjective improvement. FDA stopped the vaccine's use in a federal court hearing where neither the cancer patients nor their doctors were allowed to testify.

  Barry Lynes

  Cancer, Vaccines, Fda

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• I have been diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). It's a terminal disease with an average lifespan of two to five years post-diagnosis, and scientists don't know what causes it. ALS prevents your brain from talking to your muscles. As a result, muscles die. As a result, every 90 minutes people die. I am a person.

  Steve Gleason

  Two, Average, Talking

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• You all know I have terminal cancer—and I have a lot of it. But what you may not know is that stress induces its spread and induces its activity. Stress may even bring it on. Yet stress is the fuel of the activist. This activist loves Oregon more than he loves life. I know I can't have both very long. The trade-offs are all right with me. But if the legacy we helped give Oregon and which made it twinkle from afar—if it goes, then I guess I wouldn't want to live in Oregon anyhow.

  Tom McCall

  Cancer, Stress, Love Life

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• From personal experience, I completely agree that it is often easier to go for monotone sadness. When I was starting out, I wrote a gazillion short stories that ran the gamut of human suffering - drug addiction, child abuse, terminal illness, loved ones dying by all manner of misfortune, etc. In hindsight, it's clear that I mistook the power of the situation for the power of the story.

  Anthony Marra

  Children, Sadness, Addiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's a familiar story now: a meek and depressed high school chemistry teacher with terminal cancer cooks up a scheme to make and market a superior grade of methamphetamine to provide a nest egg for his family after he's gone. But over the course of five seasons Walter White goes from milquetoast to murderous in order to survive.

  Bryan Cranston

  Teacher, Cancer, School

  ""Breaking Bad's" Bryan Cranston on unexpectedly making it big". "60 minutes" with Steve Kroft, www.cbsnews.com. October 9, 2016.

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• No matter what's in your head, you go up into any hospital, up to a terminal ward and it'll smack you right back into reality that, "Hey man, whatever you're dealing with, if it's heavy on your heart and head, you're gonna have to let that go, because there, some people are dealing with unavoidable situations that they can't let go." And then they eventually let those go, so, I mean, that's helpful.

  Chuck D

  Letting Go, Mean, Heart

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Enjoy Life, Challenges

  "Who Is Nelson Mandela? A Reader's Digest Exclusive Interview". Interview with Caitlin O'Connell, www.rd.com. 2005.

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• We've all got a terminal illness. It's called life.

  Benedict Groeschel

  Illness, Terminal Illness

  Fr. Benedict Groeschel, CFR (2017). “Arise from Darkness: What to Do When Life Doesn't Make Sense”, p.76, Ignatius Press

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• What god would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15:37 flight to Oslo?

  Douglas Adams

  Airports, Two, Atheism

  The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul ch. 6 (1988)

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• It must be understood that, as adults, we are all terminal.

  Jacob K. Javits

  Adults, Understood

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• There's probably no experience more alienating than fame, other than a terminal illness, where you actually find yourself in a situation that nobody around you can relate to.

  Diablo Cody

  Finding Yourself, Fame, Illness

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• We all know to feel sympathy for those who've suffered from drug addiction, child abuse, and terminal illness, so the set up elicits an emotional response that the story itself very well may not earn. Energy generated by the fiction itself is likely to produce more light.

  Anthony Marra

  Children, Emotional, Light

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm than good.

  Sheri Fink

  Gone, Patient, Harm

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We need adventure, we need meaning, we need identity. We need love. Someone who has seen us through loving eyes has awakened us from the ranks of the formerly dead. Most people bear the terminal stress of walking the world unseen, a mere number or cog in a lifeless machine.

  Marianne Williamson

  Stress, Eye, Adventure

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The figures... are not supposed to reveal anything... It's like seeing a stranger in some place like an air terminal for the first time. You look at him, you notice his shoes, his suit, the pin in his lapel, but you don't have any particular feeling about him.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Air, Shoes, Feelings

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• Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

  Lewis Grizzard

  Funny, Humor, Perspective

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