Body Quote by Democritus

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

— Seneca the Younger

Disease is not something personal and special, but only a manifestation of life under modified conditions, operating according to the same laws as apply…

— Rudolf Virchow

Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.

— Thomas Sydenham

“Disease is not simply a manifestation of some physical process unique to the individual, but it reflects their particular lives, environment and culture.”

— Gabor Maté

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

— Mary Baker Eddy

Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."

— William Thomas Councilman

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

— Ramakrishna

People little dream of how their affairs react on the body. There is a mental correspondence for every disease.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

There is no illness of the body except for the mind

— Socrates

A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

— Ada Leverson

Life is a terminal disease.

— Anonymous