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1 " We may be sure that the characteristic blindness of the twentieth century - the blindness about which posterity will ask, " But how could they have thought that?" - lies where we have never suspected it... None of us can fully escape this blindness, but we shall certainly increase it, and weaken our guard against it, if we read only modern books. Where they are true they will give us truths which we half knew already. Where they are false they will aggravate the error with which we are already dangerously ill. The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books. "
2 " If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic. "
― Ann Druyan
3 " We've been dead for thousands and thousands of years. Dead or sleeping, depends on how you feel about it at any given moment. But that's okay. The trouble starts when you are born, then everything becomes taxing and temporary. When they pulled us into awareness, they killed us. Then we get saddled with a seven minute relay, at best. A soft limbo that's only palliative and comforting in theory. A momentary respite that's a cosmic joke of course and still resented by the divine. A petty haggling of which we weren't even a part of. When forced into an existence, we turned into the ward of all that breathes, subjected to the known universe, and though always partial to the unknown, which wasn't really found and never understood, is lost to us. "
― Asghar Abbas
4 " One obvious palliative of the evils of democracy in its present form would be to encourage much more publicity and initiative on the part of civil servants. They ought to have the right, and, on occasion, the duty, to frame Bills in their own names, and set forth publicly the arguments in their favor. "
― Bertrand Russell , Sceptical Essays
5 " Se tudo o resto não me basta por que hei-de impedir o efeito paliativo das benzodiazepinas e a volúpia desta evocação alucinatória?If everything else is not enough for me why should I stop the palliative effect of benzodiazepines and the lust of this hallucinatory evocation? "
― Victor Eustáquio , O Carrossel de Lúcifer
6 " The palliative care nurses welcome him: he's a spot of brightness, they claim he keeps the patients interested in life. " We don't think of the clients here as dying," one of them said to him on his first visit. " After all everyone's dying, just some of us more slowly. "
7 " A paradigm shift of viewing palliative care or hospice as a gift instead of seeing it as giving up has the potential to change the way we experience advanced age. "
― Lisa J. Shultz , A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
8 " Last Comforts” was born when one nagging question kept arising early in my journey as a hospice volunteer. Why were people coming into hospice care so late in the course of their illness? That question led to many others that rippled out beyond hospice care. Are there better alternatives to conventional skilled nursing home operations? How are physicians and nurses educated about advanced illness and end-of-life care? What are more effective ways of providing dementia care? What are the unique challenges of minority and LGBT people? What is the role of popular media in our death-denying culture? What has been the impact of public policy decisions about palliative and hospice care? The book is part memoir of lessons learned throughout my experiences with patients and families as a hospice volunteer; part spotlight on the remarkable pathfinders and innovative programs in palliative and late-life care; and part call to action. I encourage readers – particularly my fellow baby boomers -- not only to make their wishes and goals clear to friends and family, but also to become advocates for better care in the broader community. "
― Ellen Rand , Last Comforts: Notes from the Forefront of Late Life Care
9 " Life as we find it is too hard for us it entails too much pain too many disappointments impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies. "
10 " Years back someone said cod liver oil was the cure-all! Cheerfulness is more palliative and with no unpleasant aftertaste. "
