251 Quotes About Aids

We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.

Fighting makes us feel alive, until it kills us. If it doesn’t kill us, the pain of sitting alone with ourselves, quietly, under constant assault by our own thoughts and memories of war can easily be enough to make us wish we’d died in battle instead.

After he died, there was a deep calm to his face; he seemed a kind of unfathomable, still well which opened on and down beneath the suddenly smooth surface of his skin…The heat in him lasted a long time. I loved that heat. I don’t know how long I held his face and his shoulders and stroked him; as he began to cool I kept my hands on his belly, where the last of his warmth seemed to pool and concentrate. Here the fire of the body came to rest, smoldering longest, down to the last embers.

Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.

Being HIV positive doesn’t necessarily mean that you are going to die before each and every person who is HIV negative.

The heavy warlike losses of the AIDS years were relegated to queer studies classrooms, taught as gay history and not American history.

His friends will decline in their numbers as his needs increase. The inverse, or perverse, mathematics ay life.

The stigmatization and the excruciating pains of social alienationhave compelled most victims to conceal their status while themalevolent ones continue to distribute the virus free of charge tounsuspecting men and women

Because of things such as drugs and alcohol, countless people, most of whom are female, do not know that they were once raped, many of them more than once.