Quotes About Disease

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyses life; love harmonises it. Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

If you take good care of any disease by eating well, sleeping well, being aware of your health, consciously wanting to be well, not smoking, et cetera, you are doing all the things you should be doing anyway, but somehow having a disease makes them easier to do. A human without a disease is like a ship without a rudder.

More than a few historians have suggested that heavy drinking in colonial times (and well into the nineteenth century) occurred, at least in part, because water supplies were unreliable and could, in some cases, cause disease. Food supplies—often not properly refrigerated in an era when an icehouse was considered "high tech"—were similarly suspect.

A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Sociopathy stands alone as a "disease" that causes no dis-ease for the person who has it, no subjective discomfort. Sociopaths are often quite satisfied with themselves and with their lives, and perhaps for this very reason there is no effective "treatment.

In the end one cannot avoid the conclusion that AIDS unites certain human themes -- homosexuality, sexual disease, and death -- about which society actively resists enlightenment. These are things that we are unwilling to address or even think about. We don't want to understand them. We would rather fear them.

Bacteria keeps us from heaven and puts us there.

A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history.

Disease is somatic; the suffering from it, psychic.

Why should moral distinction be made between death by the spirochete and death by the streptococcus?

The law discovers the disease. The gospel gives the remedy.

It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-can´t-help-it.

la guerra era una forma derrochadora y brutal de combatir la presión demográfica. Pero a falta de anticonceptivos eficaces o de posibilidades de abortar bajo control médico, la alternativa era también derrochadora y brutal: subalimentación, hambre, enfermedades y una vida breve, pobre y mezquina para todo el mundo.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Although often perceived as one disease, cancer is a number of diseases subsumed within one diagnostic label.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Love is a grave mental disease.

The worst disease in the world is hate. And the cure for hate is love.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

We can cure physical diesases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love

It [love] is a disease to be born with patience, like any nervous complaint, and to be treated with counter-irritants.

I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.

Love is a serious mental disease.