Quotes
Quotes about Disease
Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth
In strange eruptions.
Diseases desperate grown
By desperate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
That disease
Of which all old men sicken,--avarice.
[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them so many anatomies.
Felix Plater notes of some young physicians, that study to cure diseases, catch them themselves, will be sick, and appropriate all symptoms they find related of others to their own persons.
The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace!
The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the world.
This strange disease of modern life.
For full indeed is earth of woes, and full the sea; and in the day as well as night diseases unbidden haunt mankind, silently bearing ills to men, for all-wise Zeus hath taken from them their voice. So utterly impossible is it to escape the will of Zeus.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
Subject to a kind of disease, which at that time they called lack of money.
For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
...to be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodnes disease." My debauchery I undertook solitarily, by night, covertly, fearfully, filthily, with a shame that would not abandon me... I was then already bearing the underground in my soul.
I suffer from a disease which used to be called a shortage of money
A diseased body is as tyrannical as any upstart dictator
Disease, of its nature, either kills or is cured
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. - Epidemics.
Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.
The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons The pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk to defend them. He at once consented. When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year. Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
