Quotes
Quotes about Disease
And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head. [Lat., Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur.]
As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath, Receives the lurking principle of death, The younger disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
O, he's a limb that has but a disease: Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.
Diseases desperate grown By desparate appliance are relieved, Or not at all.
Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil.
Some remedies are worse than the disease itself. [Lat., Graviora quaedam sunt remedia periculis.]
Disease is a physical process that generally begins that equality which death completes.
We classify disease as error, which nothing but Truth or Mind can heal.
Some remedies are worse than the diseases.
A bodily disease may be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.
The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
We are the carriers of health and disease--either the divine health of courage and nobility or the demonic diseases of hate and anxiety.
The disease of mutual distrust among nations is the bane of modern civilization.
What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease.
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual past -Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.
He appears mad indeed but to a few, because the majority is infected with the same disease. [Lat., Nimirum insanus paucis videatur, eo quod Maxima pars hominum morbo jactatur eodem.]
When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy'â I call them 'disease of the week' movies.
A maiden born when Autumn leaves Are rustling in September's breeze, A Sapphire on her brow should bind, 'Twill cure diseases of the mind.
