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Quotes About Disease

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
~ Hippocrates
Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga.
~ Tirumalai Krishnamacharya
Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth.
~ Rumi
I am a type-2 diabetic, and they took me off medication simply because I ate right and exercised. Diabetes is not like a cancer, where you go in for chemo and radiation. You can change a lot through a basic changing of habits.
~ Sherri Shepherd
Whether the result of wear, tear, and exhaustion of resources or whether genetically programmed, all life has a finite span and each species has its own particular longevity. For human beings, this would appear to be approximately 100 to 110 years. This means that even were it possible to prevent or cure every disease that carries people off before the ravages of senescence do, virtually no one would live beyond a century or a bit more.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
The very old do not succomb to disease-they implode their way into eternity. (How We Die)
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
Not death but disease is the real enemy, disease the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.
~ Sherwin B. Nuland
But nostalgia was the first disease associated with time, its victims longing for days gone by.7
~ Simon Garfield
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
~ Sir William Osler
The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
~ Sir William Osler
Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.
~ Richard Wilbur
I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.
~ Graham Greene
It is only true love when you have no choice. Love is the most highly valued disease that is identified by the symptom of You-can´t-help-it.
~ Martin Walser
Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.
~ Rajneesh
Can you ever solve disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity.
~ Max Brooks
Oh C'mon. Can you ever solve poverty? Can you ever solve crime? Can you ever solve disease, unemployment, war or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity. You can't stop the rain. All you can do is just build a roof that you hope won't leak, or at least leak on the people who are gonna vote for you.
~ Max Brooks
How could those in power, especially in such a modern, enlightened age as ours, ignore the spread of a deadly disease until it reached plague proportions?
~ Max Brooks
Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives.
~ Max Brooks
Can you ever "solve" poverty? Can you ever "solve" crime? Can you ever "solve" disease, unemployment, war, or any other societal herpes? Hell no. All you can hope for is to make them manageable enough to allow people to get on with their lives. That's not cynicism, that's maturity.
~ Max Brooks
But a vaccine! That's preventative! People will keep taking that as long as they're afraid it's out there!
~ Max Brooks
To see the consequences of anxiety, just read about half the ailments in a medical textbook.
~ Max Lucado