Quotes About Disease

Medicine no doubt, has helped us a lot to cure so many diseases, but death still remains an incurable one!

Hate is a disease, but love is its only cure.

ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.

You said it so innocently, so matter-of-factly, that it robbed us of our breath. And while we recovered to offer the standard adult response, that love doesn't care about sickness or health, inside we were trembling, because we saw in you something, with your disease, that we were terrified of seeing in ourselves. Acceptance.

Morrie had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Lou Gehrig's disease, a brutal, unforgiving illness of the neurological system. There was no known cure.

Do not stop your lives, he told them. Otherwise, this disease will have ruined three of us instead of one. In this way, even as he was dying, he showed respect for his children's worlds.

Ted, this disease is knocking at my spirit. But it will not get my spirit. It'll get my body. It will not get my spirit.

Healthy and diseased, as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.

This can no longer be explained as a private issue. If suddenly 60 to 80 percent of college women can't eat, it's hard to believe that suddenly 60 to 80 percent of their families are dysfunctional in this particular way. There is a disease in the air; its cause was generated with intent; and young women are catching it.

Cruelty became as contagious as any disease.

influenza viruses manage to wreak their harm with very little genetic information—just thirteen genes.

Over the past three thousand years, smallpox may have killed more people than any other disease on Earth.

Between 1400 and 1800, smallpox killed an estimated five hundred million people every century in Europe alone.

The future looks rosy for West Nile virus and other mosquito-borne viruses that follow it to the New World. That's because the future is going to be warm and wet. Carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases are raising the average temperature in the United States.

We have the technology right now to effectively eradicate Huntington's disease from the planet, along with many other genetic disorders. But the messy realities of human existence--of economics, emotions, politics, and the rest--override the technological possibilities.

You have more zeal than good taste, Martín. The disease afflicting you has a name, and that is Grand Guignol : it does to drama what syphilis does to your privates. Getting it might be pleasurable, but from then on it's all downhill.

La mayoría de las tradiciones no son más que las enfermedades de una sociedad.

Niente è giusto. Al massimo si può sperare che sia logico. La giustizia è una malattia rara in un mondo per il resto sano come un pesce.

His curiosity about Africana--insatiable. Arturo had what he called the book hunting disease. No one volume told the whole story, and no library specialized in the subject.

Remaining obsessively angry makes you more likely to develop a disease because the energy consequence of a negative obsession is powerlessness.

Again, we all have negative feelings, but not all negativity produces disease. To create disease, negative emotions have to be dominant, and what accelerates the process is knowing the negative thought to be toxic but giving it permission to thrive in your consciousness anyway.

Tenho uma doença que está além do alcance da medicina; mesmo meu bom amigo Graham não tem cura para ela. Assim que eu chegar em terra, vou querer partir de novo. Meu lar é o navio. Minha pátria é o mar.

Diabetes is caused by melancholy.

Jealousy... is a mental cancer.