I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition. – Mercedes McCambridge
Ive always had bronchitis. Ive been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it. – Mercedes McCambridge
Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time. – Mercedes McCambridge
Id never been in play long enough for the flowers to die in the dressing room. – Mercedes McCambridge
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while were alive – to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross