Maladies Quotes

#1. What can be sadder than a discouraged artist dying not from his own commonplace maladies, but from the cancer of oblivion?

Vladimir Nabokov

#2. Grudges, if left to fester, can become serious maladies. Like a painful ailment they can absorb all of our time & attention.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#3. There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

#4. Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.

Jules Verne

#5. Oh incomprehensible pederasts, I shall not heap insults upon your great degradation; I shall not be the one to pour scorn on your infundibuliform anus. It is enough that the shameful and almost incurable maladies which besiege you should bring with them their unfailing punishments.

Comte De Lautreamont

#6. The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some of my favorites are 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, 'The Virgin Suicides' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'The Interpreter of Maladies' by Jhumpa Lahiri, and 'Blindness' by Jose Saramago.

Karen Thompson Walker

#7. The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death

Edgar Allan Poe

#8. If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.

David A. Bednar

#9. There is only one ultimate and effectual preventative for the maladies to which flesh is heir, and that is death.

Harvey Williams Cushing

#10. Turkey tail mushrooms have been used to treat various maladies for hundreds of years in Asia, Europe, and by indigenous peoples in North America. Records of turkey tail brewed as medicinal tea date from the early 15th century, during the Ming Dynasty in China.

Paul Stamets

#11. The soul is cured of its maladies by certain incantations; these incantations are beautiful reasons, from which temperance is generated in souls.

Socrates

#12. Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

Oscar Wilde

#13. For decades, the Arab states have seemed exceptions to the laws of politics and human nature. While liberty expanded in many parts of the globe, these nations were left behind, their 'freedom deficit' signaling the political underdevelopment that accompanied many other economic and social maladies.

Elliott Abrams

#14. I will say, in open adoption, all these choices you make about race, about the amount of mental illness you can deal with, about special needs and physical maladies, you have to lay all this out there before you know anybody's story.

Jennifer Gilmore

#15. Only the emerging specialty of psychoanalysis seemed to understand that mental maladies are not fully analogous to physical disease. They resist classification, and might better be known by their symptoms and the individualized sufferings of patients than by assigned names.

Sherwin B. Nuland

#16. It is only necessary to make war with five things; with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the body, with the seditions of the city and the discords of families.

Pythagoras

#17. He who immerses himself in sexual intercourse will be assailed by premature aging, his strength will wane, his eyes will weaken, and a bad odour will emit from his mouth and his armpits, his teeth will fall out and many other maladies will afflict him.

Maimonides

#18. Why did I write 'The Emperor of All Maladies?' A 56-year-old woman with an abdominal sarcoma, having undergone two remissions and a relapse, asked me to describe what she was battling. By the time I had finished answering her, I realised that I had written 600 pages.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#19. As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. There are maladies we must not seek to cure because they alone protect us from others that are more serious.

Marcel Proust

#20. If you are surprised at the number of our maladies, count our cooks.

Seneca The Younger

#21. To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

#22. Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#23. There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.

Oscar Wilde

#24. That is why they have poets - to classify all the degrees of love. It is for scientists to classify the maladies arising from the want of it.

Sarah Ruhl

#25. The Lady takes most mortals unto her bosom by maladies of the colon."
"Death by constipation?

Steven Erikson

#26. There is a day coming when all of the suffering, all of the maladies of this life are destroyed, when we, in our glorified bodies, will live in heaven, on the new earth, eternally fulfilling God's ordained purpose for us.

Paul P. Enns

#27. Try to help others. Consult their weaknesses, relieve their maladies; strive to raise them up, and by so doing you will most effectually raise yourself up also.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

#28. Shy people might take their doses of companionship like an ill-tasting medicine, but they need it, and they suffer a thousand maladies, physical and mental, if they don't have it.

Orson Scott Card

#29. Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.

Martin Luther

#30. Thoughtful exposure of youngsters to nature can even be a powerful form of therapy for attention-deficit disorders and other maladies.

Richard Louv

#31. Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Thomas Carlyle

#32. The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

Thomas Carlyle

#33. Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.

Martin Luther

#34. There are no maladies in my golf game. My golf game stinks.

Jack Nicklaus

#35. The politicized sponsors of this pseudoscientific nonsense should be ashamed to live, let alone die. If you want to take part in the "war" against cancer, and other terrible maladies, too, then join the battle against their lethal stupidity.

Christopher Hitchens

#36. The maladies of the spirit alone, in abstracto, that is, error and sin, can be called diseases of the mind only per analogiam. They come not within the jurisdiction of the physician, but that of the teacher or clergyman, who again are called physicians of the mind only per analogiam.

Ernst Von Feuchtersleben

#37. The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#38. When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies.

Bryant McGill

#39. Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.

Charles Wagner

#40. St Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries

J.K. Rowling

#41. Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.

Thomas Brooks

#42. Homosexuals die decades younger than heterosexuals, from a host of maladies. They suffer mental problems ranging from depression to psychosis, and have suicide rates many times that of heterosexuals.

David Duke

#43. To him, man was a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex multiform creature that bore within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh was tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead.

Oscar Wilde

#44. It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.

Norman Douglas

#45. Some maladies are rich and precious, and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#46. I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our moral and spiritual maladies and deal with causes rather than with consequences, with the disease rather than with symptoms.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#47. The microbiome is the sum of our experiences throughout our lives: the genes we inherited, the drugs we took, the food we ate, the hands we shook. It is unlikely to yield one-size-fits-all solutions to modern maladies.

Anonymous

#48. A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

Samuel Richardson

#49. In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless at the same time.

Jhumpa Lahiri