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Quotes About Incurable

All who drink of this treatment recover in a short time, except those whom it does not help, who all die," he wrote. "It is obvious, therefore, that it fails only in incurable cases."5
~ Philip E. Tetlock
Justice departments and parole boards all over the world have accepted his contention that psychopaths are quite simply incurable and everyone should concentrate their energies instead on learning how to root them out using his PCL-R Checklist, which he has spent a lifetime refining. His was not the only psychopath checklist around, but it was by far the most extensively used.
~ Jon Ronson
We don't have anything to offer, but we began to realize that we had to offer the very things that have made the physician-patient relationship so hallowed for so many reasons, and that is ourselves, our interest, our presence. It may sound strange to say this, but I think a healing can take place even when the disease is incurable and they go on to die. That's a healing that takes place in both the patient and the physician.
~ Abraham Verghese
Julian wouldn't wish for his daughter to be anything other than extraordinary: for her, kingdoms would be renounced, incurable diseases cured, world records broken.
~ Polly Samson
Why is one man healed of a so-called incurable disease and another isn't? Why is it so many good, kind religious people suffer the tortures of the damned in their mind and body? Why is it many immoral and irreligious people succeed and prosper and enjoy radiant health? Why is one woman happily married and her sister very unhappy and frustrated?
~ Joseph Murphy
It isn't discomfort, or dis-ease as he put it. It's this aching, throbbing, god-awful incurable pain - and it's known as life. When will the doctors learn: It isn't death that's the disease.
~ Wendy Law-Yone
My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.
~ Nick Park
The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.
~ Ogden Nash
Writing is an incurable psychological disease which only gets worse with writing.
~ Debasish Mridha
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
~ David Hume
The bigotry of theologians [is] a malady which seems almost incurable.
~ David Hume
Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.
~ David Mitchell, Slade House
Granice was overcome by the futility of any further attempt to inculpate himself. He was chained to life - a 'prisoner of consciousness'.
~ Edith Wharton
but his days were shortened by poison, perhaps the most incurable of poisons; the stings of remorse and despair, and the bitter remembrance of lost glory.
~ Edward Gibbon
Cat rescue is like a virus," says Des placidely about the cat obsession that has taken over his life. "And once you're infected, it's incurable.
~ Rescue Ink
staff. A characteristic of a lethal, contagious, and incurable virus is that it quickly gets into the medical people.
~ Richard Preston
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
~ William Shakespeare
The heart is deceitful above all things, / And it is incurable; / Who can know it?" (17:9).
~ Witness Lee
Capitalism: after a long and vigorous life, now incurable, living in pain. In a coma; become a zombie; without a plan; without any hope of returning to health. So you put it out of its misery.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Lothaire said, "I have a much better plan." "Why help him?" Thad asked pointedly. "When you don't help anybody else?" Lothaire exhaled ruefully. "Incurable romantic.
~ Kresley Cole
I was like a person who has been suffering an unknown disease in an agony of fear: just learning the name of his disease, even though it is an incurable one, gives him a surprising feeling of temporary relief. He knows well, though, that the relief is only temporary. Moreover in his heart he foresees a still more inescapable hopelessness, which, by its very nature, will give a more permanent feeling of relief.
~ Yukio Mishima
An incurable soul! You poor thing! I-330 burst out laughing. And her laughter splashed all over me, the whole delirium passed, and little sequins of laughter were flashing and how ... how wonderful it all was.
~ Zamyatin, Yevgeny
We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.
~ Andrew Greeley
We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.
~ Andrew Greeley