Books Quote by Thomas Sydenham

Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

— Paul Tournier

“Disease doesn’t exist. Instead of thinking of it as a disease – I’d like for you to think of it for a moment as…

— Wayne W. Dyer

The gods have become our diseases.

— Anonymous

“Long before there were effective treatments, physicians dispensed prognoses, hope, and, above all, meaning. When something terrible happens-and serious disease is always terrible-people want…

— Randolph M. Nesse

“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

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

“Nature scarcely seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has developed the art of prolonging them.”

— Marcel Proust

“Please don’t interpret the presence of your disease as the absence of God’s love. I pray he heals you. And he will, ultimately.”

— Thomas Nelson

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes; the distinctions which set one man so much above another are very little perceived in the…

— Samuel Johnson

“...younger patients, known as 'Acutes' because the doctors figure them still sick enough to be fixed...”

— Ken Kesey

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

— Emile M. Cioran

“Yet the Bible also talks about diseases, both of the body and mind, and Jesus heals these diseased people. Ergo, while it is true…

— Thomas D. Taylor