Disease Quotes · Page 39

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.

— David Foster Wallace

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

— Karl Kraus

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

— Margaret Thatcher

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology...

— Susan Sontag

All I'm trying to do is wipe out heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, and obesity.

— Nathan Pritikin

What you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is get to the root of the disease.

— Ron Rosedale

If only we correct our eating habits than not only we would have perfect body weight but also we can get rid…

— Subodh Gupta

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

— Joseph Addison

An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease…

— Nicole Richie

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and…

— Harold Brodkey

I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it. I always went…

— Liza Minnelli

Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and…

— Joel Fuhrman

My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My…

— Gisele Bundchen

I'm thinking of people in rural Japan and China, where McDonald's hasn't yet arrived. These are the thinnest, healthiest, longest-lived people with…

— Neal Barnard

Where there is a wine-shop, there are the elements of disease and the frightful source of all that is at enmity with…

— Charles Forbes Rene de Montalembert

A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and…

— Margaret Chan

In 1494, King Charles VIII of France invaded Italy. Within months, his army collapsed and fled. It was routed not by the…

— Carl Zimmer

I have late-stage Lyme disease. I was misdiagnosed for many, many years and told I had lupus, MS, Crohn's disease, even degenerative…

— Kathleen Hanna

Do you want a sign that you're asleep? Here it is: you're suffering. Suffering is a sign that you're out of touch…

— Anthony de Mello

Man is still by instinct a predatory animal given to devilish aggression. The discoveries of science have immensely increased productivity of material…

— Herbert Hoover

Fear is not an emotion, it is a disease. It spreads from the leader to his followers and vice-versa. Nothing has killed…

— Anand Neelakantan

My father passed away after three years of debilitating disease, which transformed a very strong and bright man into a real wreck.…

— Christine Lagarde

If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits…

— Mark Twain

“Saw a film on cancer yesterday, shown by the English delegation. No doubt about it. I'm right. "Migratory cancer cells" are amoebic…

— Wilhelm Reich

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

— Voltaire

After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.

— Martha Gellhorn

If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.

— Nick Cave

Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as…

— Robert A. Burton

“Smartassitis might not be a clinically defined disease, but it should be.”

— Mindee Arnett

I live in a fantasy world where I think I'm immune to all disease. I don't get sick and haven't had anything…

— Jesse Spencer

Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

— Upton Sinclair

I and my companions suffer from a disease of the heart which can be cured only with gold.

— Anonymous

If the ‘germ theory of disease’ were correct, there’d be no one living to believe it.

— B. J. Palmer

When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of…

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

“During moments of strife and 'dis-ease', check your flow and redirect your focus to that which is naturally good.”

— T.F. Hodge

I know runners who have suffered a tick bite and ended up with Lyme disease. Ill take an angry moose any day.

— Don Kardong

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

— Thomas Chandler Haliburton

“There is a very strange and undetectable sickness in the modern population that responds to huge doses of vitamin B12.”

— Steven Magee

Having cancer is one thing; looking like you have cancer is another thing. It's a disease that already takes so much.

— Amy Robach

No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.

— Maimonides