Cicely Saunders quotes

  • How people die remains in the memory of those who live on
    -- Cicely Saunders

    #Death #Memories #People

  • You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die.
    -- Cicely Saunders

    #Death #Matter #Helping

  • Sufering is only intolerable when nobody cares. One continually sees that faith in God and his care is made infinitely easier by faith in someone who has shown kindness and sympathy.
    -- Cicely Saunders

    #Kindness #Care #Faith In God

  • Approaches to death and dying reveal much of the attitude of society as a whole to the individuals who compose it. The development of ideas of what constitutes a good death can even be traced to prehistory.
    -- Cicely Saunders

    #Attitude #Ideas #Dying

  • I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  • Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

  • Often in winter the end of the day is like the final metaphor in a poem celebrating death: there is no way out.

  • They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

  • He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

  • I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom.

  • Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

  • My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

  • Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

  • Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.