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Quotes About Disease

He gave it all to charity," said my father. "Diabetes research, I can understand that. But cancer research? He didn't even have cancer!
~ Louis Sachar
What's wrong with Louis?" asked Ron. "Is he sick or something?" "Yes," said Jenny. "He's got a real bad disease. And it's spelled L-O-V-E.
~ Louis Sachar
Loss, dislocation, disease, addiction, and just feeling like the tattered remnants of a people with a complex history. What was in that history? What sort of knowledge? Who had they been? What were they now? Why so much fucked-upness wherever you turned?
~ Louise Erdrich
La gripe de los desequilibrios mentales
~ Rosa Montero
epidemic of some contagious illness to which they had already fallen victim.
~ Rose Tremain
Why, when you have a mental disease, is it always considered an act of imagination? Why is it that every organ in your body can get sick and you get sympathy except the brain?
~ Ruby Wax
This disease comes with a package: shame. When any other part of your body gets sick, you get sympathy.
~ Ruby Wax
You're getting a sort of vaccination this year. If you don't know it now, you'll find it out some day. But it's going to keep you from dying of a terrible disease. Lucinda was filled with amazement… What is the disease, Uncle Earle? she asked solemnly. Snobbishness-priggishness-the Social Register. I don't care a damn what you call it, Snoodie, as long as you get your antitoxin before the disease gets you.
~ Ruth Sawyer
Your good health is the thing you have until the day your doctor tells you you don't have it any more.
~ Salman Rushdie
It is worth remembering that if God created the world and all things in it, he created smallpox, plague, and filariasis. Any person who intentionally loosed such horrors upon the earth would be ground to dust for his crimes.
~ Sam Harris
The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
~ Alexander Pope
Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.
~ Kris Carr
My belief is that cancer comes from inside you and so much of it has to do with the environment of your body. It's the stress that will turn that gene on or not.
~ Melissa Etheridge
Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.
~ Mary Ann Mobley
Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
I believe that stress is a factor in any bad health.
~ Chris Shays
Stress is extremely harmful to the body. Even mainstream medicine is recognizing how many diseases stress causes.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Stress is what feeds your cancer. Stress is what gives you cancer and then there's the paparazzi giving you stress.
~ Farrah Fawcett
Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!
~ Phil Heath
Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
~ Wayne Gretzky
Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
~ R. D. Laing
The squalid cash interpretation put on the word success — is our national disease.
~ William James
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.
~ Peter Beinart