Disease Quotes

AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

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

You go into the disease as one person and come out of it as a different person. It has changed my perspective on everything. Things that used to upset me no longer do.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Unlike curing cancer or heart disease, we already know how to beat hunger: food.

Most allopathic doctors think practitioners of alternative medicine are all quacks. They're not. Often they're sharp people who think differently about disease.

Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.

For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

Retire? Not on your life. I have no plans to stop singing. What are you going to do when you love music? It's a terrible disease. You can't stop. Of course, I'd like to get off the road.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

It's silly to keep people alive who have a terrible disease.

There are some who praise a man free from disease; to me no man who is poor seems free from disease but to be constantly sick.

Cancer is just a horrible disease.

No man with a touch of heart disease should ever back his mounts.

Love is a serious mental disease.

I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world.

I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

Congress has a legitimate interest in making sure that a practice that appears to reduce disease and healthcare costs remains available to parents. And, nothing in my bill prohibits statewide law ensuring that male circumcision occurs in a hygienic manner.

Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.