Disease Quotes · Page 45

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

— Gilbert Adair

The poisons are our principal medicines, which kill the disease and save the life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell

— Emily Dickinson

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

— Mark Twain

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

— Jimmy Carter

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my…

— Rebecca Wells

Yoga aims to remove the root cause of all diseases, not to treat its symptoms as medical science generally attempts to do.

— Vishnudevananda Saraswati

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

— Walter Duranty

You go into a hospital now, it's dangerous. We can get diseases that can't be dealt with, that are moving around the…

— Noam Chomsky

Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all…

— Alan Huffman

The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and…

— Thomas Sydenham

I have had manic-depressive illness, also known as bipolar disorder, since I was 18 years old. It is an illness that ensures…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

Once you have a disease like cancer, you look at life a bit differently. Some things that were important no longer seem…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

“With the development of utility electricity for the masses in the 1900's, very few people realize that a new era of sickness…

— Steven Magee

There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only…

— Steve Allen

Mental tensions, frustrations, insecurity, aimlessness are among the most damaging stressors, and psychosomatic studies have shown how often they cause migraine headache,…

— Hans Selye

Oh, that's typical of you modern young men; you've nibbled at science and it's made you ill, because you've not been able…

— Emile Zola

It was long assumed that heart disease manifested the same in men and women. But Dr. Legato found that men may experience…

— Jed Diamond

As a general proposition, campaigns do not linger on the vice presidential nominee. When they have, it's always meant very bad news…

— Jeff Greenfield

Climate change is...a gross injustice-poor people in developing countries bear over 90% of the burden-through death, disease, destitution and financial loss-yet are…

— Barbara Stocking

The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was…

— Jane Swisshelm

Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and…

— Thomas A. Edison

There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting…

— Anonymous

“I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had…

— Jerome K. Jerome

To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.

— Anonymous

Glaucoma is a thief of sight. Each day it steals from you precious memories - not of what was, but of what's…

— Jeremiah Lim

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

— Andrew Taylor Still

But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

— Alexander Pope

People are going to keep getting prescribed medication that is counter to what their real disease state is, which is addiction.

— Patrick J. Kennedy

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

— Democritus

Addiction is a disease of exposure. Doctors and nurses, for instance, have a high addiction rate.

— William S. Burroughs

In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure…

— Constance Baker Motley

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

— Anton Chekhov

The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.

— Ani DiFranco

Raw garlic and a skin of the lemon - not only do they give you a beautiful face and skin but they…

— Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

It turns out, I have a very rare form of muscular dystrophy, which is a muscle-wasting disease.

— George Clarke

Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

There are zillions of people who say that alcoholism is a disease, but not many of them believe it

— Mercedes McCambridge

I lost my mother, who suffered from Alzheimer's disease, and we had to relocate my dad after 58 years in the family…

— Doug Davidson