Terminal Disease Quotes:

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

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

topic: Fear, Equality, Waking, Terminal, Terminal Disease

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

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

topic: Inspiring, Enjoy Life, Challenges, Terminal Disease

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

- Noam Chomsky

topic: Freedom, Hero, Survival, Democracy Freedom, Human Existence

When you're dying, you're liberated to do what you want to do. You give yourself permission. I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

- Laura Linney

topic: Unique, Thinking, Giving, Terminal Disease

Drug-use is a terminal disease.

- Virgil Miller Newton

source: "Gone Way Down: Teenage Drug-Use is a Disease". American Studies Press, Tampa, Florida, 1981.

topic: Drug, Disease, Use, Terminal Disease

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

topic: Average, Talking, Years, Terminal Disease

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.

- Lewis Grizzard

topic: Perspective, Disease, Life Is, Terminal Disease

Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.

- Anne Enright

source: "Ten rules for writing fiction" by Anne Enright, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

topic: Book, Self, Dying, Terminal Disease

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

- John Cleese

topic: Disease, Life Is, Sexually, Terminal, Terminal Disease

Now we have two choices in life: have sex with the same person forever or risk a terminal disease. Either way, your life is over.

- Andy Kindler

topic: Sex, Two, Choices, Terminal, Terminal Disease