Disease Quotes
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Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.
William Harvey
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Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.
Margaret Chan
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Twentieth-century culture's disease is the inability to feel their reality. People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they're emotionally dead.
Jim Morrison The Doors
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Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
Plato
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Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.
Serge Lang
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Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.
Avicenna
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Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.
Heraclitus
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Good health is about being able to fully enjoy the time we do have. It is about being as functional as possible throughout our entire lives and avoiding crippling, painful and lengthy battles with disease. There are many better ways to die, and to live.
T. Colin Campbell
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Aging is not currently regarded as a disease, but researchers tend increasingly to view it as the common origin of conditions like insulin resistance or cardiovascular disease, whose incidence rises with age. In treating cell aging, we could prevent these diseases.
María Blasco Marhuenda
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Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.
Denis Parsons Burkitt
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Following the enormous conjecture in the press over the last two weeks, I wish to confirm that I have been tested HIV positive and have AIDS. I felt it correct to keep this information private to date to protect the privacy of those around me. However, the time has come now for my friends and fans around the world to know the truth and I hope that everyone will join with my doctor and all those worldwide in the fight against this terrible disease.
Freddie Mercury Queen
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There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.
George Bernard Shaw
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All disease begins in the gut.
Hippocrates
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Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.
Thomas Carlyle
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I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.
William Shakespeare
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I am hoping to be able to lend my support to a Sickle Cell charity in the near future, as I want to try and help raise money and awareness about this disease.
Jourdan Dunn
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All disease has a mental correspondence, and in order to heal the body one must first 'heal the soul'.
Florence Scovel Shinn
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Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.
Andrew Cecil Bradley
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Disease often tells its secrets in a casual parenthesis.
Wilfred Trotter
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If the disease is sin, the remedy is found at the Cross.
Ed Stetzer
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Jaundice is the disease that your friends diagnose.
William Osler