Quotes About Disease

There may be a little bit of finger-pointing - there always is in a situation like this - but I think of Ebola as an act of nature. It's the biological equivalent of a tsunami, and yes, we are having trouble handling it.

COPD includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both. Over time, it makes it harder and harder to breathe because less air is able to flow in and out of the lungs.

My eyes don't work, at least not fully, because they are blocked by disease. The scene around me appears through a kind of curtain, a haze.

So I can't show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

We have a disease care system, not a health care system.

Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.

In an aging world with more chronic disease, health and healthcare are enormous opportunities that we want to focus on.

Well you know, it's true that as a fat person I run a greater risk of heart disease, diabetes, and a number of other things. But guess what? The amount of that risk is almost infinitessimal!

Smoking-related heart disease runs in my family. My grandfather and great-grandfather died in their early 40s.

If you knew you could change your lifestyle and diet and avoid heart disease and other things, you should do it.

I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

My grandmother passed away from diabetes. And my father died from heart disease as a result of diabetes. They were in their early 60s.

Addiction is a disease, just like diabetes and heart disease.

In high school, I had a couple girlfriends who had very extreme eating disorders. Anorexia and bulimia. And in college as well. It's just heartbreaking. As someone going through it, it's heartbreaking. And as a friend who's helping a friend going through it, it's heartbreaking. It's a real, real disease.

We also ate all the rats we could catch. No doubt many died after the war from disease contracted account of these things.

It is devilish to suffer from a pain that is all but nameless. Blessed are they who are stricken only with classifiable diseases! Blessed are the poor, the sick, the crossed in love, for at least other people know what is the matter with them and will listen to their belly-achings with sympathy. But who that has not suffered it understands the pains of exile?

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think now, as I thought then, that it's better to die violently and not too old. People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by definition, means something slow, smelly and painful

It was pneumonia that we were fighting against, not against men

a notable bacteriologist indicated that the emergence of some new disease had always been a possibility which had worried the more far-thinking epidemiologists.

Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love yourself and your body and the world. And make you know that you are in a game that has to have a happy ending.

La vie ne connaît pas la réversibilité. Mais si elle n'admet pas le rétablissement, la vie admet des réparations qui sont vraiment des innovations physiologiques. La réduction plus ou moins grande de ces possibilités d'innovation mesure la gravité de la maladie. Quant à la santé, au sens absolu, elle n'est pas autre chose que l'indétermination initiale de la capacité d'institution de nouvelles normes biologiques.

La maladie nous révèle des fonctions normales au moment précis où elle nous en interdit l'exercice.

La santé c'est l'innocence organique. Elle doit être perdue, comme toute innocence, pour qu'une connaissance soit possible. Il en est de la physiologie comme de toute science, selon Aristote, elle procède de l'étonnement. Mais l'étonnement proprement vital c'est l'angoisse suscitée par la maladie.