Disease Quotes

What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.

What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.

The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.

Laughter serves as a blocking agent. Like a bullet-proof vest, it may help protect you against the ravages of negative emotions that can assault you in disease.

Pot is to narcotics what herpes is to social diseases; it doesn't count cos it's not really dangerous and it's too easy to get.

Poetry is the disease of the brain.

One of the reasons many people don't have what they want is neglect. Neglect starts out as an infection and then develops into a disease.

Medicine is only palliative. For behind disease lies the cause and this cause NO DRUG can reach.

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

For what's the use of talking with a man who has a disease and thinks about the stars?

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

The diseases that we civilized people labor under most are melancholy and pessimism.

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.

We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

Anti-Semitism is a disease-you catch it from Jews

Boredom is a disease worse than cancer. Drugs cure it.

The struggle between "for" and "against" is the mind's worst disease.

In Sweden, we have what is called 'The Finnish Disease.' It consists of not talking much, or at all.

Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness

Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.

I used to have Mad Cow's disease, but I'm alright Nooooooooow.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am. That's a lead singer's disease.

I am an alcoholic, as I said. And it is however we call it, a disease. That's an explanation, but not an excuse.

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

All diseases and disorders have some spiritual connection and serve as stepping stones for us to listen to and learn from.

The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

In the 50 years I've spent helping people to overcome illness, disability and disease, it has become crystal clear that poor bowel management lies at the root of most peoples' health problems.

Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease.

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.

AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue.

Anyone who feels that homosexuality is not only a sin but also a disease or a mental issue should take a look in the mirror and realize who the real crazy person is.

True, nuts are high in fat, but most of them contain monounsaturated fat that is good for the heart. In fact, eaten in moderation, nuts can lower your risk of heart disease and heart attack.

Obesity is a mental state, a disease brought on by boredom and disappointment.

Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.

To be specific, is to exhibit a knowledge of the principles and art of adjusting; a comprehension of facts so systematized that they are available for the relief of disease.

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

Disease is a disturbed condition, not a thing or entity.