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Quotes About Disease

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.
~ Peter B. Lewis
My father once discovered that one cannot "walk off" gangrene.
~ James Nicoll
I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.
~ Malachy McCourt
I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.
~ Robert Jarvik
It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.
~ Seneca the Younger
Fear is the most subtle and destructive of all hueman diseases. Fear kills dreams!
~ Les Brown
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
~ William James
There is one fat that diabetics can eat without fear. That fat is coconut oil. Not only does it not contribute to diabetes but it helps regulate blood sugar, thus lessening the effects of the disease
~ Bruce Fife
The manifestation of the disease of fear is anger, hate, sadness, envy, and hypocrisy; the result of the disease is all the emotions that make humans suffer.
~ Miguel
Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
~ Buddha
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
~ William Lyon Phelps
At least chemists can turn to analysis; sufferers from an unknown disease can call in a doctor. And criminal cases are more or less clarified by the examining magistrate. But the disconcerting actions of our fellow-men rarely reveal their motives.
~ Marcel Proust
Snobbery is a grave disease, but it is localised and so does not utterly corrupt the soul.
~ Marcel Proust
Once upon a time, drug companies promoted drugs to treat diseases. Now it is often the opposite. They promote diseases to fit their drugs.
~ Marcia Angell
Alzheimer's was far more terrifying than death.
~ Marcus Sakey
Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
~ Marian Anderson
Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity.
~ Marilyn Ferguson
The medical system serves a very important purpose for many, but our most common lifestyle diseases are better served with use of the Self Care System.
~ Nina Leavins
Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.
~ Nelson Mandela
You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.
~ Joel Fuhrman
When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!
~ John Harvey Kellogg
If you think the price of organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately.
~ Joel Salatin
My whole family, all they talk about is food and disease. And they're competitive with illness: I have a cold. I wish I had a cold! I don't even have sinuses anymore.
~ Dom Irrera
There's not one food that causes diabetes.What causes Type II diabetes is being overweight... I've just come to grips, over the past four or five months, with my diabetes.
~ Paula Deen