"Mortality" Quotes

To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?

The main thing that I've learned from living with this disease is that the news of it can be conveyed in one of two ways: as a death sentence or as a life sentence.

The cancer patient, to the extent that he or she is unable to work, tends to be the object of a special solicitousness. And this is because the patient is so easily turned into a child.

There can be no 'explanation' of why one person gets a particular cancer and another does not.

I am poorly adapted for illness. My major fault, I suspect, is impatience.

Once I had seen the doctor, I took a taxi back to the hotel, laid out the new prescriptions, swallowed the various pills, and wondered whether they would make me feel better or worse. I'm happy to say that I felt neither.

The residual pain from a lifetime of excess is not as bad as I would have thought, and my chief regret at this point is the loss of time.

I'm not particularly interested in why people believe, because I don't think that's what's important. I'm interested in what people believe, and I'm interested in how people behave.

The great thing about being bald is that when you see a hair on your pillow, you know exactly which head it fell from.

It's not just the disease but the silence that surrounds it. The taboos that are still associated with it, the level of ignorance.