logo

Quotes About Incurable

You can't know anything beforehand. The incurable can survive the healthy. Life is a strange phenomenon.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Some cancers are curable, while others are highly incurable. The spectrum is enormous. Metastatic pancreatic cancer is a highly incurable disease, whereas some leukemia forms are very curable. There is a big difference between one form and another.
~ Siddhartha Mukherjee
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.
~ Angela Carter
Our desires are insatiable. We seek from the limited the unlimited. We must fail. Our insatiability is a third incurable defect in human life.
~ Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Still, I didn't like the implication that I had contracted an incurable beyond the pale.
~ Anna Burns
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Chronic means that it will be permanent but perhaps not constant.
~ Alice Munro
Only that I've never met a psychoanalyst who didn't – at least subconsciously – offer his system as a substitute for religion. Present company included. We set ourselves up as little gods – all-knowing, all-healing. People resent that and rightly. We have polite labels for our failures. We agree among ourselves that anything bearing one of those labels is, of course, incurable.' Dr
~ Frank Herbert
I am sure you would not understand if I told you my father is delightfully clear and selfish, tender and lying, formal and incurable. He exhausts all the loves given to him. If I did not leave his house at night to warm myself in Rango's burning hands I would die at my task, arid and barren, sapless, while my father monologues about his past, and I yawn yawn yawn...
~ Anais Nin
Grief was an illness with me. Unfortunately it's incurable. I've just learned to live with it.
~ Sandra Brown
Life is an incurable condition: the only known treatment is to try to keep the patient comfortable.
~ Ashleigh Brilliant
Possibly they would be consigned to the Hospital for Incurable Bores, and made to work at being bored for so many hours a day by the Erewhonian inhabitants of the hospital, who are extremely impatient of one another's boredom, but would soon die if they had no one whom they might bore--in fact, that they would be kept as professional borees.
~ Samuel Butler
If you're unable to catch it in time, the cancer can spread to the lymph nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn't mean your condition can't be improved.
~ Len Dawson
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely desperate. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.
~ Antonin Artaud
I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
You drive me back down my desperation—that unclouded incurable never forgotten evil growing inside my life.
~ Sophocles
Poor wretches! I rather pity their folly and indiscretion, than their loss of time and money; for these may be recovered by industry: but to be a fool born is a disease incurable.
~ Ben Jonson
What's wrong with you?" Nika asks Madoc. He responds, "I'm an incurable asshole.
~ Shannon K. Butcher
The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.
~ Euripides
Life is an incurable disease leading to death, but it's also an unrequested gift, which, if we can manage to keep giving it away to others, can keep giving back everything to us.
~ Stephen Hough
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.
~ Georges Rouault
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.
~ Bill Bryson
His was an illness that besets the intellectual: the indefatigable will to mastery. Chronic and incurable, it afflicts those who lust after a world that makes sense.
~ Siri Hustvedt
Love is an incurable malady like those pathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.
~ Marcel Proust