Quotes About Disease

It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination.

It could be seasonal allergies, it could be pneumonia, it could be the common cold, it could be flu. And so it takes tests and lab work and resources and scans to parse out if this is COVID-19 or if this is something else.

However, if you have the disease, your chances of survival decrease with every minute treatment is delayed, so we're going to assume the worst and begin treatment now.

The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while the madman has only one!

Tobacco is not like wine but is rather more like smallpox or heroin.

Being healthy consists of having the same disease as everyone else.

Most anti-vaccine books claim that all shots are bad, the diseases aren't really anything to fear, and as long as you live a natural and healthy lifestyle, you don't have to worry. I think this is a very irresponsible approach to the vaccine issue. Vaccines are beneficial in ridding our population of both serious and nonserious diseases.

But none of these drugs had been developed after scientists had identified any disease process or brain abnormality that might have been causing these symptoms.

Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure.

Había enflaquecido extraordinariamente en pocos días. La piel amarilla, pegada a los huesos planos del rostro, le daba la apariencia de un tísico. Más tarde la autopsia reveló que estaba ya avanzada la enfermedad en él.

The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man's sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too.

Isn't reality an insatiable AIDS-riddled whore?

His observations on certain hard drugs give him a kinship to the great chroniclers of hell, except that in Burroughs there's no moral or ethical motive, only the description of a frozen abyss, the description of an endless process of corruption. Language, he said, is a virus from outer space, in other words, a disease, and he spent his whole life trying to fight that disease.

La casa de Maciste era una promesa y una enfermedad y yo daba vueltas por la promesa y la enfermedad.

Isn't reality an insatiable AIDS-riddled whore?

The worst thing about disease is the uncertainty. Humans are capable of adapting to anything as long as they know. It's the hopeless floundering that drives people crazy.

A investigação podia dar esperanças para o futuro, curando as doenças... mas tinha um outro potencial muito mais perturbador.

America is one of the last places left on earth where every citizen, until the day he or she dies, is exposed to the risk of personal bankruptcy because of illness or disease. It does not matter how industrious we are, how carefully we save and invest, or how moral we are in our personal and family life. We are all just one long hospital stay away from losing everything.

Every pandemic in the history of the world has come from China.

Maybe it was hereditary, anger. Maybe it lay dormant in boyhood, the disease taking hold in late adolescence. Then it either burned out before any damage was done, or took control.

Heroes. They sprang up around him like weeds. A carrier, he was seemingly unable to catch the disease he spread.

Héroes. Brotaban alrededor suyo como semillas. Un portador; aparentemente él era incapaz de contraer la enfermedad que él mismo diseminaba

No me sorprendería. El hermano de milord, Mark, dice que la integridad es una enfermedad, y tan sólo puede contagiártela alguien que la padece.

Paranoid?" she inquired solicitously. "Getting more so by the minute. Having Mad Emperor Yuri in my family tree doesn't help a bit. I'm always wondering if I'm starting to come down with his disease. Can you be paranoid about being paranoid?" She smiled sweetly. "If anyone can, it's you.