Disease Quotes
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We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.
Hippocrates -
Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
Samuel Johnson
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To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.
Virginia Woolf -
It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
Hippocrates -
In cases of porphyria, a minor disease, the patient excretes large quantities of porphyrins.
Hans Fischer -
Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.
Barry Commoner -
I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.
Gail Devers -
Your father's an asshole. It's not a disease. You don't have to catch it.
Rachel Caine
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One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
D. H. Lawrence -
The cure of many diseases is unknown to physicians because they are ignorant of the whole... For the part can never be well unless the whole is well.
Plato -
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
Seneca the Younger -
Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
Amy Lowell -
No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
Maimonides -
When you get told that you have a disease, it's like: 'Really? Nah, it's all right. I don't believe that. It must be something else, I'm just making an excuse, let me push harder.'
Venus Williams
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Bigotry is the sacred disease, and self-conceit tells lies.
Heraclitus -
When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it – MS overall, as a subject, as a disease – there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.
Jack Osbourne -
Repressively, Lymond himself answered. “I dislike being discussed as if I were a disease. Nobody ‘got’ me,” he said.
Dorothy Dunnett -
Once you learn what the disease or physical block has to teach you and finally let go of the emotional issues stored in the cells, then, and only then, can real healing begin on all levels - emotional, spiritual and physical.
Brandon Bays -
The greatest mistake in the treatment of diseases is that there are physicians for the body and physicians for the soul, although the two cannot be separated.
Plato -
There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.
William Osler
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Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases.
Hippocrates -
Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise.
Hannah Arendt -
I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.
Sandra Cisneros -
After a lifetime of war-watching, I see war as an endemic human disease, and governments are the carriers.
Martha Gellhorn