Disease Quotes · Page 41

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

— Craig Raine

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

— Anonymous

Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

— Malcolm Gladwell

In my opinion, poets talk through the symptoms of disease. These symptoms of disease are predictions, screams, and songs.

— Kim Hyesoon

Hate is a disease. It is fear's messenger and it makes us do terrible things in a shadow of our better selves,…

— Colin Farrell

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

— Ben Jonson

“Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch…

— Nevil Shute

We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures…

— Peter Kreeft

This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair…

— Aretaeus of Cappadocia

I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness,…

— David Zindell

I can look at cancer as a disease that picks me out and 'why me,' or I can look at it through…

— Melissa Etheridge

Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car.…

— Philip K. Dick

The real jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot is the prothonotary warbler. ... The flash of his gold-and-blue plumage amid the dank decay…

— Aldo Leopold

To something that looks very different. The thing to understand here is that Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, they're not the disease and…

— Ben Domenech

The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the…

— Dawn Powell

To be brutally honest, for much of that time, I was the only person in the world with Parkinson's. Of course, I…

— Michael J. Fox

It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our…

— Terence McKenna

What becomes of the surplus of human life? It is either, 1st. destroyed by infanticide, as among the Chinese and Lacedemonians; or…

— James Madison

Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society…

— C. S. Lewis

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women…

— Gillian Flynn

I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil;…

— John Burroughs

And the stigma hasn't really changed that much in 31 years. You are still getting people - it's a shame-based disease. It's…

— Elton John

Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready…

— Tim Lebbon

I think that people would like to, at all times, reject death and disease with technology.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.

— Socrates

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

— Dan Savage

I have a disease, it's called awesomeness, don't worry it's not contagious...

— Kaylee Mondrella

I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.

— Anthony S. Fauci

I swear to you, sirs, that excessive consciousness is a disease--a genuine, absolute disease.

— Anonymous

Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails

— Sun Simiao

Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.

— Chris Hedges

Jesus has paid for my healing. Disease has no right to be in my body. I am healed in Jesus’ name!

— Joseph Prince

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

— Laozi

This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

— Matthew Arnold

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

— Jill Lepore

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three…

— Stephen Hawking

Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Marianne Moore

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

— Malachy McCourt