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Quotes About Disease

I just want to live a long healthy life, and I don't want to have any neurological diseases or die younger than I would otherwise.
~ Chris Borland
I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it.
~ Teri Garr
We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
~ Nathan Wolfe
Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.
~ Scott Anderson
I have to admit I was dismayed when I found out 'type A' refers to a category of risk for heart disease - I thought it was just a nickname my mom gave me!
~ Reese Witherspoon
If free-radical leak is fast, degenerative diseases set in quickly; if it's slow, they're postponed or even abrogated altogether.
~ Nick Lane
Sugar is a silent killer
~ Nicole Richie
The by far greater number of human beings are never aware of what is passing around and within them, and millions fall victims of disease and die prematurely just on this account.
~ Nikola Tesla
I headed abroad once again, suffering from the incurable Faustian disease of learning.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Optimism is the first symptom that any disease is fatal.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting nature with clear-cuts, pollution, harvesting to extinction. Monopolies. Disease. War. Every fortune comes out of something unpleasant.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
She says, Do you have any rubbers? I say, I thought she was barren. Sure, I'm sterile, she says, but I've had unprotected sex with a million guys. I could have some terrible fatal disease. I say that would only be a problem if I wanted to live a lot longer. Fertility says, That's how I feel about my giant credit card debt. So we have sex. If you could call it that.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Inspiration needs disease, injury, madness.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
We live and we die and anything else is just delusion. it's just passive chick bullshit about feelings and sensitivity. Just made-up subjective emotional crap. There is no soul. There is no God. There's just decisions and disease and death.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Lyme disease, meningitis, rheumatic fever, syphilis.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Rant Casey on DRVR Radio Graphic Traffic: . . . What if reality is nothing but some disease?
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I am Jack's prostate. I get cancer. I kill Jack.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Brandy Alexander smiling and looking terrific. "They're Vicodins, dear," she says. "It's the Marilyn Monroe school of medicine where enough of any drug will cure any disease.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Humankind was a disease. The earth was the body. Climate change was the fever.
~ Chuck Wendig
Humankind was a disease. The earth was the body.
~ Chuck Wendig
America, burning. Cornfields on fire. Sickness in the streets.
~ Chuck Wendig
Death and his zealous minions—dread, despair, disease—can find you anywhere at all, and the armor plate of youth will no longer protect you.
~ Claire Messud