Quotes
Quotes about Disease
This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Life is an incurable disease.
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.
We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment. -Aaron Antonovsky.
Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism... the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.
Love is a disease, if you catch it then there is no cure for it, just like cancer.
You behold in me Only a travelling Physician; One of the few who have a mission To cure incurable diseases, Or those that are called so.
But, when the wit began to wheeze, And wine had warm'd the politician, Cur'd yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.
'Tis time to give 'em physic, their diseases Are grown so catching.
(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies That keep her from her rest. (Macbeth:) Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? (Doctor:) Therein the patient Must minister to himself. (Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it!
There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
The medicine increases the disease. [Lat., Aegrescitque medendo.]
But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor. - Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire),
Medicine can only cure curable diseases, and then not always.
The diseases of the mind are more and more destructive than those of the body. [Lat., Morbi perniciores pluresque animi quam corporis.]
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, Expels diseases, softens every pain, Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague.
They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.
Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
