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Illness and death are not optional. Patients have a right to determine how they approach them. -- Marcia Angell
When I paint a woman in an armchair, the armchair is there to show illness and death-or as a protection. -- Pablo Picasso
A diet rich in fruits and vegetables plays a role in reducing the risk of all the major causes of illness and death -- Walter Willett
Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death. -- Joshua L. Liebman
My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association. -- Ishmael Reed
I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death. -- Leslie Marmon Silko
Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some sudden turn of the path of life, it dashes off for the moment his mask of civilization and gives a glimpse of the stranger and stronger face below. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Tucker was my safe place for three years, my secure dock in a sea of indecision as I dealt with my father's illness and death. And now I had to sink or swim. It was time to let go...and move on. Slowly, I pushed off from the dock that was Tucker Montgomery and prepared to swim...praying I wouldn't drown. -- Melissa Brown
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover -- Marcel Proust
Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death. -- Spike Milligan
"Death by love is fairer by far than death by illness", said Amenhotep III. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Embodied courage chooses not to wait until illness or notice of death demands attention. -- Jack Kornfield
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? -- Walker Percy
Going through an illness and then death of a close friend has changed my attitudes to friendship enormously. -- Jane Green
AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease. -- Yusuf Hamied
The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration. -- Mark Twain
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength. -- Isabel Allende
I want to die in my own way. It's my illness, my death, my choice. This is what saying yes means. -- Jenny Downham
A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged. -- George Bernard Shaw
We are far betting dealing with the big losses-death, divorce, debt, and debilitating illness-than with the daily onslaught of little losses. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears. -- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears. -- Gloria E. AnzaldÃºa
Because death and illness are the most horrible things in life, of course that's where the most absurdly funny things are going to happen. -- Julia Sweeney
Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom. -- Rachel Corrie
Death means that a form of life dissolves or that the imminent possibility of dissolution exists, whether through our own death or through illness or old age. -- Eckhart Tolle
To hate destructiveness, one must hate life as well: only death is an image of undistorted life ... organic life is an illness peculiar to our unlovely planet. -- Theodor Adorno
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out. They're a misery, all of them. -- James Hillman

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