Quotes About Disease

...humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.

Ireland is a fatal disease fatal to Englishmen and doubly fatal to Irishmen.

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

Deep scientific psychoanalysis reveals that excessive beliefs and dependence on religion is a superstition and fear induced psychiatric disease.

Writing is an incurable psychological disease which only gets worse with writing.

This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

Over the mountain growths, disease and sorrow, An uncaught bird is ever hovering, hovering, High in the purer, happier air.

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease

A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

We can tentatively credit capitalist civilization with a positive, if very geographically uneven, record in the struggle against disease.

It's my mission to try and give people fighting the disease the same gifts of laughter and a positive attitude I had. Hopefully, my career as a comic will give me the forum to touch these people.

Some patients I see are actually draining into their bodies the diseased thoughts of their minds.

Give me the power to produce fever and I'll cure all disease.

The only disease you have is your inability to see you have the power to heal yourself.

I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.

Every year pancreatic cancer kills more than 35,000 people in America—it's the fourth leading cause of cancer death.

The Painted Veil

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind.

Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man. For just as there is no profit in medicine if it does not expel the diseases of the body, so there is no profit in philosophy either, if it does not expel the suffering of the mind. - Epicurus

Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.