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Quotes About Disease

Depression is like the worst disease you can get. It's devastating.
~ Robert Sapolsky
Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.
~ Thomas Sydenham
The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.
~ Hans Rosling
The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.
~ Andy Rooney
I suffer from bronchiectasis, an obstructive lung disease, and have a little osteoporosis, too.
~ Judith Durham
Too many people will die needlessly if we go back to letting people buy junk insurance or insurance that doesn't help people with diseases related to mental illness.
~ Marti Noxon
Central African farmers don't have any animal power because sleeping sickness kills all the animals - cattle, the horses, the burros and the mules. So draft animals don't exist, and farming is all by hand, and the hand tools are hoes and machetes.
~ Norman Borlaug
She drinks her Eva water. Their parents were taken down by cancer, heart attacks and strokes. Respectable diseases.
~ Sefi Atta
les quatre activités les plus fréquemment compromises au début de la maladie d'Alzheimer sont l'usage sécuritaire des médicaments, l'emploi efficace des transports, l'utilisation régulière du téléphone ou d'un autre moyen de communication et la gestion responsable de ses finances.
~ Serge Gauthier
A la pérdida del olfato (una cosa terrible, vi un documental sobre el tema el otro día. Vera, Vera, vamos, Vera, vení). A la policía. A los estadios de fútbol. A las tormentas eléctricas. A la soledad. A las muchedumbres. A la violencia. A la vejez. Al sida, al cáncer (entra en enfermedad). A la impotencia (¿entra en soledad?). A los ladrones. A la electricidad. A sufrir (entran todos los miedos juntos y se agrega el amor).
~ Sergio Bizzio
More people today die with cancer, than because of cancer.
~ Severin Meiland
Allá iban, con mis escupitajos, los bacilos de la tuberculosis que había contraído en Japón y me alegraba imaginar esos bacilos agonizando abrazados bajo el sol tropical.
~ Sh?hei ?oka
the greatest source of misery in the world, the greatest cause of anguish and hatred and sadness and death, was neither disease nor race nor religion. It was hope.
~ Shalom Auslander
The women in the kitchen sang: Sarampión toca la puerta. Viruela dice: ¿Quién es? Y Escarlatina contesta: ¡Aquí estamos los tres! The cook would sometimes shout a little madly, "Sing it again!" And the women would sing again: Measles knocks at the door. Smallpox asks, Who's there? And Scarlet Fever replies: All three of us are here!
~ Sharman Apt Russell
I do not want to die of this disease. So I say to God: "It is seriously time for a miracle."
~ Farrah Fawcett
Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates.
~ Glenn Beck
The American crow is at an all-time low of 82 birds. Others hit by the West Nile, like the black-capped chickadee, have rebounded.
~ Jeff Chapman
Everything in food works together to create health or disease.
~ T. Colin Campbell
Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy.
~ T. Colin Campbell
looked terrible! Her face was covered with bright yellow spots!
~ Mary Pope Osborne
Beef went next. Because I used to write for a health magazine, I had heard about Mad Cow disease back when it was known by its scientific nomenclature, bovine spongebob empopalopathy.
~ Mary Roach
You can have all sorts of symptoms, with only one disease
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The choice is with us; let us will it, and our habitation becomes a paradise. For the will of man is omnipotent, blunting the arrows of death, soothing the bed of disease, and wiping away the tears of agony.
~ Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley