Disease Quotes · Page 24

When [disease] can't be stopped, that's where we become lost.

— Atul Gawande

All disease and aging occurs as the subtle physical body breaks down.

— Frederick Lenz

Heart disease is a foodborne illness.

— Caldwell Esselstyn

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.”

— Martha Moody

“I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.”

— Ben Johnson

Disease may also be thought of as the negation of the normal.

— William Thomas Councilman

You have a very common disease if you are sick of high doctor fees.

— Vikrant Parsai

The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful.

— Bill Gates

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

— Alice Hamilton

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now lives.

— Susan Sontag

Anorexia is such a self-consuming, selfish disease. It's all about you. Becoming a mother, all of a sudden it wasn't about me…

— Tracey Gold

Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

— Monica Potter

Insulin resistance is the basis of all of the chronic diseases of aging, because the disease itself is actually aging.

— Ron Rosedale

You act like getting pregnant is a disease you can catch from public toilets.

— Rainbow Rowell

[Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."

— Ron Suskind

Cities are the origins of global warming, impact on the environment, health, pollution, disease, finance, economies, energy are all problems that are…

— Geoffrey West

I always wanted to be a surgeon, because I had a lot of admiration for my father, who is also a surgeon.…

— Magdi Yacoub

Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary; That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty,…

— Everett Ruess

I believe psychology has done very well in working out how to understand and treat disease. But I think that is literally…

— Martin Seligman

If I would have listened to other people back in 2000 telling me I should have stopped playing basketball because of a…

— Alonzo Mourning

HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for…

— Ambrose Bierce

It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects…

— Alphonsus Liguori

Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural… In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills…

— Carl Sagan

Displacement of any part of the skeletal frame may press against nerves, which are the channels of communication, intensifying or decreasing their…

— Daniel D. Palmer

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form…

— Karl Abraham

Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race- small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now…

— Sitting Bull

There's a current notion that you should "take charge of your disease." No thanks. I'm busy. I've got cancer. I'm willing to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

One of the problems is that the notion of cancer has been so normalized. You hear about it so often, and it's…

— Jennifer Beals

I confess that Magic teacheth many superfluous things, and curious prodigies for ostentation; leave them as empty things, yet be not ignorant…

— Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients…

— John Piper

Because of my sickle-cell disease, I have a high tolerance for pain.

— Tionne Watkins

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

— Anonymous

“Why do I always lie? For Real, it's like a disease.”

— Tarryn

I have a disease? Bullshit. I cured it with my brain.

— Charlie Sheen

Pertussis is a disease that adolescents and adults give to children.

— Paul A. Offit

“What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.”

— Hippocrates

I've been very open about this cornea disease that I have.

— Shannon Bream

“Vampirism is not a contagious disease.”

— Alex Taylor