Quotes About Disease

Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.

Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them. So is there no way to escape the will of Zeus

Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease.

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

Ill health is an important factor that forces the poor to remain poor. If they make a little bit of money, one episode of illness can wipe them out.

Vaccines are not traditionally big money makers. They're given once or a few times in one's life, so they're never going to be blockbusters.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.

How is it, one fine morning, Duchenne discovered a disease which probably existed in the time of Hippocrates.

Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

My mother was a lupus patient. I was a child with the lupus gene.

Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs.

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear.

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.

Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.