Disease Quotes

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

With all of the holiday cheer in the air, it's easy to overlook the ingredients in the foods. Ingredients such as salt, sugar, and fat - all of which leads to diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, strokes, heart disease, and cancer.

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.

The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.

There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Every day we do get closer to a cure. Three out of four children who are diagnosed with cancer will survive the disease, but that is not good enough. The loss of one child to this disease is too much.

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.

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.