Affliction Quote by Lawrence Durrell

A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per analogiam. They…

— Ernst Von Feuchtersleben

There was no name for the disease; his body had gone insane, forgotten the blueprint by which human beings were built. Even now the…

— Orson Scott Card

“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

I am about to discuss the disease called 'sacred'. It is not, in my opinion, any more divine or more sacred that other diseases,…

— Hippocrates

When I die, I want a disease named after me, with symptoms that include being awesome at everything.

— Young Siddiq Prince

“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific…

— Blaise Cendrars

“Science Fiction is a group of symptoms and not a disease,” so a medical student (failed) told me once. “It's like the old disease…

— R.A. Lafferty

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

— Plato

“Yet the ailment is virtually nonexistent in Iceland. There is a higher prevalence of the disorder in the northeastern United States than in Iceland.…

— Eric Weiner

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar,…

— Leo Tolstoy