Quotes About Disease

Just living longer and being sick is the worst. But the idea that you could have fewer diseases, and just have a healthy life and then turn out the lights, that's a good vision to have. And I think what we know about some of these pathways suggests that might be possible.

Everyone's going to die, and everyone's going to get sick at some point. But I do believe that there are choices you can make in life that will make you as healthy as possible.

When you are sick, you are sick. Period.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Wherever the American diet goes, wherever these foods and drinks go, sickness follows.

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.

Cell-based and regenerative medicine can restore human functions lost to disease, including returning some sight to the blind.

Is there something in my genetic makeup that makes me more at risk for heart disease? I believe there is. My father was the sign.

Lyme has brought me to my knees; this disease is a silent killer and does not have a face.

Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.

I once worked as a writer for a big New York ad agency. Our boss used to tell us: Invent a disease. Come up with the disease, he said, and we can sell the cure. Attention Deficit Disorder, Seasonal Affect Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder. These aren't diseases, they're marketing ploys. Doctors didn't discover them, copywriters did. Marketing departments did. Drug companies did. Depression and anxiety may be real. But they can also be Resistance.

Miraculously, cancers go into remission. People recover. Is it possible, Tom Laughlin asks, that the disease itself evolved as a consequence of actions taken (or not taken) in our lives? Could our unlived lives have exacted their vengeance upon us in the form of cancer? And if they did, can we cure ourselves, now, by living these lives out?

Los terrenos bajos son húmedos, lo cual provoca enfermedades y dificulta el combate.

This I know for sure: Life is...uncertain. As a society and as individuals, we must protect healthy people from disease. We must also treat those suffering from disease in an intelligent, humane, and compassionate way. We need to be rational and keep our fears in check.

Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.

She hadn't surrendered to knowing she would be dealing with her disease for the rest of her life. No matter what, it would be there. If she needed surgery, she would have to be careful with painkillers. If she had another child, she should probably not get drugs during labor. For the rest of her life, every single day, she would be on guard. Just like every other alcoholic in recovery.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about a disease.

Nothing is more punitive than to give a disease a meaning - that meaning being invariably a moralistic one.

Psychological theories of illness are a powerful means of placing the blame on the ill. Patients who are instructed that they have, unwittingly, caused their disease are also being made to feel that they have deserved it.

Theories that diseases are caused by mental states and can be cured by will power are always an index of how much is not understood about the physical terrain of a disease.

Like other diseases that arouse feelings of shame, AIDS is often a secret, but not from the patient. A cancer diagnosis was frequently concealed from patients by their families; an AIDS diagnosis is at least as often concealed from their families by patients.

Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.

disease had made his father gentler?

Recuerden que los microbios son, junto con la desordenada codicia de los bienes ajenos, el gran motor de la Historia.