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Quotes About Cure

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.
~ George Santayana
Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.
~ David Hyde Pierce
The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.
~ Katharine Whitehorn
Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.
~ Philip Emeagwali
The movies were so healing for me because I had such an isolated, lonely childhood. Going to the movies and having the lights go down, you disappear. If you have esteem issues, suddenly you're in a void where nobody can see you. You are just by yourself in that darkness, and your loneliness is cured.
~ Michael De Luca
I can't stomach any kind of notion that serious fiction is good for us, because I don't believe that everything that's wrong with the world has a cure, and even if I did, what business would I, who feel like the sick one, have in offering it? It's hard to consider literature a medicine; sooner or later the therapeutically minded reader will end up fingering reading itself as the sickness.
~ Jonathan Franzen
We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy. The warrior's approach is to say "yes" to life: "yea" to it all.
~ Joseph Campbell
What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
~ Abraham Verghese
Jeremiah 17 it is written, "The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure, and who can understand it?
~ Abraham Verghese
B3 could cure schizophrenia. You would think
~ Abram Hoffer
It had taken me a long time to see how strong this desire for an answer was. I had to train myself to notice how it arose, and how to put it aside. Because if all I did was scour what a person said to me each week for clues, I wouldn't do her much good. I had to give up my own need to cure if I was going to stand any chance of shepherding her toward acceptance of who she already was.
~ Adam Haslett
A story is told of Alfred Adler, one of Freud's early followers, who once interviewed a prospective patient at great length, taking a detailed family history, and getting as elaborate an account as possible of what the man was suffering from. At the end of this three-hour consultation Adler apparently said to the man, 'What would you do if you were cured?' The man answered him, and Adler said, 'Well, go and do it then.' That was the treatment.
~ Adam Phillips
Remember, the best cure for worry is to do something positive. That's because fear is endless and formless, whereas even the worst outcome has an ending.
~ Adeline Yen Mah
As long as... diseases aren't of a catastrophic nature, people will slowly accustom themselves to them, and eventually succumb. It is then a stroke of luck-- though a bitter one--when fate decides to intervene in this slow process of decay and suddenly bring the victim face to face with the final stage of the disease. More often than not, the result of a catastrophe is that a cure is undertaken immediately, and carried through with a firm determination.
~ Adolf Hitler
Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles.
~ Joseph B. Wirthlin
Certain types of cancer patients are finally being cured thanks to immunotherapy.
~ Tasuku Honjo
In medicine as well as politics, one cannot permit the cure to be worse than the disease.
~ Michael J. Knowles
Many inherited disorders can perpetuate poverty by leading to disabilities that disrupt people's ability to work. In turn, someone's capacity to secure an effective new cure for these diseases can mean the difference between a life led productively, or one plagued by infirmity.
~ Scott Gottlieb
If the doctor cures, the sun sees it; but if he kills, the earth hides it
~ Proverb
Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.
~ Proverb
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
~ Publilius Syrus
The cure for loneliness is solitude. —Marianne Moore, from the essay "If I Were Sixteen Today
~ Rabih Alameddine