Quotes About Disease

from the middle-middle classes, whose highest desire seemed shelter – continuous shelter – not a lair in the darkness to be reached against fear, but shelter everywhere and always, until the existence of earth and sky is forgotten, shelter from poverty and disease and violence and impoliteness; and consequently from joy; God slipped this retribution in.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect.

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.

Love is a disease. A social disease. A romantic, venereal, medieval disease. A hangover from the days of the fornicating troubadours and the gentlemen in iron britches.

Lo que nosotros conocemos como enfermedad no es más que la etapa terminal de un desorden mucho más profundo, y es obvio que para asegurar el éxito completo de un tratamiento, enfrentar solamente el resultado final no será totalmente efectivo, a menos que también erradiquemos las causas primigenias.

The art of medicine will then be honoured in the place of war, which is the art of murder: the noblest study of the acutest minds will be devoted to the discovery and arrest of the causes of disease. Life, I grant, cannot be made eternal; but it may be prolonged almost indefinitely. And as the meaner animal bequeaths its vigour to its offspring, so man shall transmit his improved organisation, mental and physical, to his sons.

Old age… it's the only disease you don't look forward to being cured of.

Asthma is a disease that has practically the same symptoms as passion except that with asthma it lasts longer.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Hatred, Omeir sees, is contagious, spreading through the ranks like a disease. Already, three weeks into the siege, some of the men fight no longer for God or the sultan or plunder but out of a fearful rage. Kill them all. Get this over with.

On Earth, when I was a boy, most everybody got sick. Rashes, funny little fevers. All the unmodified people got sick every now and then. It's part of being human. We think of viruses as evil but in reality few are. Life usually seeks to cooperate, not fight.

And then today the doctor tells us of this American who was cured of the same disease by a snail. Such a simple cure. Elegant, would you not say? A snail that accomplishes what laboratory capsules cannot. Allah, we reason, must be involved in something so elegant. So you see.

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

The more we can purge ourselves of the diseases we create the more we can become magnificent people.

I personally never get vaccinated for the flu, because no.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

'Cancer' is such a frightening word.

En mi experiencia, estas guerras en paises del tercer mundo no se ganan con balas sino con enfermedades, y no hablo de armas biológicas sino de desidia, de brutalidad, de olvido y de marginalidad" ? Florencia Bonelli, Caballo de Fuego: Congo

En mi experiencia, estas guerras en pises del tercer mundo no se ganan con balas sino con enfermedades, y no hablo de armas biológicas sino de desidia, de brutalidad, de olvido y de marginalidad

When people had the cholera it seemed that they remembered nothing but themselves.

If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.

She knew they were all afraid. But love and disease are both like electricity, Weetzie thought. They are always there—you can't see or smell or hear, touch, or taste them, but you know they are there like a current in the air. We can choose, Weetzie thought, we can choose to plug into the love current instead.

Albanians don't get dyslexia. It's a disease Americans invented so they won't have to admit their kids are retarded.