Disease Quotes

Disease is an image of thought externalized.

We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.

A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of a war that cannot be won in order to protect a nation.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

Alzheimer's ... it is a barren disease, as empty and lifeless as a desert. It is a thief of hearts and souls and memories.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

Laughter boosts the immune system and helps the body fight off disease, cancer cells as well as viral, bacterial and other infections. Being happy is the best cure of all diseases!

To block the construction of centralized power projects, as not being 'appropriate' or 'sustainable' is to condemn billions of people to continued poverty and disease-and millions to premature death.

It is the disease of cowards, who do not have the courage to speak upfront and so talk behind one's back... Watch out against the terrorism of gossip!

Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and it will give you wings to fly.

Natural healing has the power to cure pancreatic cancer. But usually, before I see the patient, medical treatments - not the disease - have destroyed the patient's body.

Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.

Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.

cleverness is a disease.

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

Hospitals are great places, and you can learn from them, but you don't necessarily need to go in anytime you get the sniffles. And maybe you shouldn't treat pregnancy as a disease.

It takes quite a bit of nerve for Democrats to complain about inflation. This reminds me of germs complaining about the disease.

Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

[Grateful] Cheerfulness is health; its opposite, [ungrateful] melancholy, is disease.

The biggest disease in North America is busyness.

The nearer any disease approaches to a crisis, the nearer it is to a cure. Danger and deliverance make their advances together; and it is only in the last push that one or the other takes the lead.

The Centers for Disease Control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions.

If Columbus in an island of America had not caught the disease, which poisons the source of generation, and often indeed prevents generation, we should not have chocolate and cochineal.

The medicine increases the disease.

The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

Confidence and hard work is the best medicine to kill the disease called failure. It will make you a successful person.

Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

Disease often comes with a smiling face.

James Parkinson. George Huntington. Robert Graves. John Down. Now this Lou Gehrig fellow of mine. How did men come to monopolize disease names too?

I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease.

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as far as it was possible, was a responsibility a democracy must assume for its people.

we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.

I believe I got Lyme disease for a reason and if that is to help bring awareness, that is my mission and I will do the best that I can to do that.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.