Top 100 Quotes About Disease
#1. If [you are] over the age of 10, the question isn't whether or not to eat healthy to prevent heart disease, it's whether or not you want to reverse the heart disease you already have.
Michael Greger
#2. In the theater lying is looked upon as an occupational disease.
Tallulah Bankhead
#3. And for its part, what was life? Was it perhaps only an infectious disease of matter - just as the so-called spontaneous generation of matter was perhaps only an illness, a cancerous stimulation of the immaterial?
Thomas Mann
#4. That's the whole story of my life: frustration. It's a chronic disease, and it's incurable.
Robert E. Sherwood
#6. Between economic freedom and government regulation? Chapter 2 will address these issues. The specific question I ask is how far very complex regulation has become the disease of which it purports to be the cure, distorting and corrupting both the political and the economic process.
Niall Ferguson
#7. The scientific obligation is first to establish the cause of the disease beyond reasonable doubt.
Gary Taubes
#8. Millions more will starve and die from disease and cold during the first winter after the collapse.
Billy Roper
#9. The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade.
Andrew Mwenda
#10. There can be no freedom for Africa without justice; and no justice without declaring war on Africa's poverty, disease and famine with as much vehemence as we remove the tyrant and the terrorist.
Tony Blair
#11. Me, I'm complicated. But it's a living, I tell myself. Also, every once in a long while this disease manages to produce a fine and beautiful truth
as (they say) some oyster illness makes the wondrously perfect pearl.
Frank Loesser
#12. Table 3/14 Levels of cholesterol in various European countries in relation to the index of mortality caused by heart disease. It is evident that there is no relation between both curves (source: WHO).
Dr. Dimitris Tsoukalas
#13. Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.
William Zinsser
#14. People who are in a position of finding out that they're at risk for some illness, whether it's breast cancer, or heart disease, are afraid to get that information - even though it might be useful to them - because of fears that they'll lose their health insurance or their job.
Francis Collins
#15. Nay, what is even worse, he may become a poet, which they say is an incurable and infectious disease." "This
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#16. The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.
Sivananda
#17. Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.
Norman Cousins
#19. The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
John Stuart Mill
#20. I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it.
Liza Minnelli
#21. Breast cancer is not just a disease that strikes at women. It strikes at the very heart of who we are as women: how others perceive us, how we perceive ourselves, how we live, work and raise our families-or whether we do these things at all.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
#22. People want to find a meaning in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age ...
Pablo Picasso
#23. What we are fighting isn't godlessness
this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines ... that helps. When we cannot cure or save a life, our patients can at least feel cared for. It should be a basic human right.
Abraham Verghese
#24. I am a physician specializing in nutritional interventions for chronic disease and a strong advocate of superior nutrition as the first line of attack to prevent and treat most chronic diseases.
Joel Fuhrman
#25. The hand is a symbol of humanity, part of what makes us human - the hand that carved the Parthenon, painted the hands of God and Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and wrote King Lear was the only hand that had known smallpox. That same hand had now given the disease to a monkey.
Richard Preston
#26. For many, negative thinking is a habit, which over time, becomes an addiction ... A lot of people suffer from this disease because negative thinking is addictive to each of the Big Three - the mind, the body, and the emotions. If one doesn't get you, the others are waiting in the wings.
Peter McWilliams
#27. Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities.
Crystal Renn
#28. Far too many politicians suffer from foot and mouth disease; they always put a foot in their mouths
Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
#29. Good nutrition and vitamins do not directly cure disease, the body does. You provide the raw materials and the inborn wisdom of your body makes the repairs. Someday healthcare without megavitamin therapy will be seen as we today see childbirth without sanitation or surgery without anaesthetic.
Andrew W. Saul
#30. Negativity is a debilitating disease. It is a slow and painful way to experience life. It attacks the immune system, creates anxiety, and can lead to loneliness and depression. Finding your inner harmony is the quickest way to alleviate the methodical destruction of this dark energy
Gary Hopkins
#32. Was I altering the 'space-time continuum' or whatever they called it in time travel movies, just by existing right now? Perhaps I'd accidentally kill a mosquito that might have given some famous person a disease that killed them?
J.R. Rain
#33. Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
Gautama Buddha
#34. Someday is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you.
Timothy Ferriss
#35. Since becoming an alleged adult, I've always felt like I should exercise - or should at least want to exercise - and make a feeble attempt at health, thus staving off terrible things like the coronary heart disease and high cholesterol described to me in 1980s margarine commercials.
Ali Liebegott
#36. It's the same as a hereditary disease, weakness. No matter how much you understand it, there's nothing you can do to cure yourself. It's not going to go away with a clap of the hand. It just keeps getting worse and worse
Haruki Murakami
#37. It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.
Terry Pratchett
#38. Dietary patterns are set at a very early age - somewhere between four and eight years old. The research shows that children who have established a healthy diet are healthier in the longer range and less likely to develop cancer, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and obesity.
Gabriel Cousens M.D.
#39. Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.
Edvard Munch
#40. The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury or disease.
Rene Dubos
#42. Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.
Virginia Postrel
#43. If Cassie was invalidated because she caught the disease, or because Fred suspected her of it, I can only imagine what he will do to me and to my family if he discovers that the cure did not work perfectly.
Lauren Oliver
#44. Mad cow disease is caused by a prion, a weirdly folded protein molecule that triggers weird folding in other molecules, like Kurt Vonnegut's infectious form of water, ice-nine, in his great early novel Cat's Cradle.
David Quammen
#45. Life is a sexual transmission disease
Anonymous
#46. You have friends, and they die. You have a disease, someone you care about has a disease, Wall Street people are scamming everyone, the poor get poorer, the rich get richer. That's what we're surrounded by all the time.
Adam Driver
#47. Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
Leon Kass
#48. Art is community's medicine for that worst disease of the mind, the corruption of consciousness
Robin G. Collingwood
#49. I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#50. According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.
Rod Stryker
#51. My friend died. (Astrid) Died how? (Zarek) Mmm, he had parvo. (Astrid) Isn't that a dog's disease? (Zarek) Yes. It was tragic. (Astrid) Hey! I resent that. (Sasha) Behave or I will give you parvo. (Astrid)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#52. It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease
Jesse Helms
#53. You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness.
Harold H. Bloomfield
#54. Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.
Susanna Kaysen
#56. No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Emil Cioran
#57. Call it an issue. Call it baggage. But I really hated lies. They're ugly things, festering like wounds, spreading like disease. They're winner-less crimes that hurt everybody in the end.
Cora Carmack
#58. Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#59. Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell.
George Carlin
#60. Vaccines don't cause autism. Vaccines, instead, prevent disease. Vaccines have wiped out a score of formerly deadly childhood diseases. Vaccine skepticism has helped to bring some of those diseases back from near extinction.
Alex Pareene
#61. All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
Hippocrates
#62. Maybe the midnight disease was like that, too. After a while you lost the ability to distinguish between your fictional and actual words; you confused yourself with your characters, and the random happenings of your life with the machinations of a plot.
Michael Chabon
#63. The deterioration of the intelligentsia is as much a symptom of disease as the corruption of the ruling class or the sleeping sickness of the proletariat.
Arthur Koestler
#64. Relief, or redistribution of income, voluntary or coerced, is never the true solution of poverty, but at best a makeshift, which may mask the disease and mitigate the pain, but provides no basic cure.
Henry Hazlitt
#66. It's my mission to try and give people fighting the disease the same gifts of laughter and a positive attitude I had. Hopefully, my career as a comic will give me the forum to touch these people.
Robert Schimmel
#67. Sadness- just a mere disease,
which keeps your soul,
placed in your own haven,
until you're in pieces!
Verses from her poem titled as 'Sadness- an ethereal aura
Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal
#68. Such is hope, Heaven's own gift to struggling mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things, both good and bad; as universal as death, and more infectious than disease!
Charles Dickens
#69. Being gay is not a terrible, tragic disease that requires prevention or treatment chosen for you by your parents.
Alice Dreger
#70. Taking things for granted is a terrible disease. We should all be checking ourselves regularly for signs of it.
Kate Tempest
#71. I took care of young adults with cystic fibrosis when I was in my residency training and found this to be a disease that was desperately in need of some explanation.
Francis Collins
#72. Heart disease syphilis pregnancy
All you creeps on the street get away from me
Kathy Acker
#73. it is difficult to solve a problem that you are almost entirely ignorant about. You cannot work for peace while ignoring violence any more than a doctor can create treatments while refusing to study disease.
Rory Miller
#74. As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.
Larry Niven
#76. I guess I just couldn't see standing there
alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being
one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.
S.E. Hinton
#77. It ultimately doesn't matter which disease gnaws away at the body - it looks the same. The flesh surrenders, grows exhausted, and the eyes ask why.
Patti Davis
#78. Religion is a disease, a social cancer. It is the afterbirth of intelligence, of thought itself.
Ari Bach
#79. I believe that the Welfare State redistributes poverty and reduces income. As Karl Kraus once said of psychoanalysis, the Welfare State is the disease which it purports to cure.
Arnold Kling
#80. Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding.
Plato
#81. Grayson Dunn is in my head. He's under my skin. He's invaded me like a deadly disease and hijacked my immune system until I don't even bother fighting it anymore. I look at him, and I'm twisted into knots. Tangled into a messy spool of desire and desperation.
Julie Johnson
#82. The corpse's hand reached up and grabbed Shaisam by the throat. He gasped, thrashing, as the corpse opened its eye.
"There's an odd thing about disease I once heard, Fain," Matrim Cauthon whispered. "Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.
Robert Jordan
#83. Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.
Susan Sontag
#84. Disease [is] not an entity, but a fluctuating condition of the patient's body, a battle between the substance of disease and the natural self-healing tendency of the body.
Hippocrates
#85. This village has known loss, people killed before their time, accidents, war, disease. Three Pines isn't immune to any of that. But you seem to accept it as part of life and not hang on to the bitterness.
Louise Penny
#86. Juicing is the key to a long, healthy, disease-free life.
Jay Kordich
#87. If your thoughts are thoughts that draw low-frequency energy current to you, your physical and emotional attitudes will deteriorate, and emotional or physical disease will follow, whereas thoughts that draw high-frequency energy current to you create physical and emotional health.
Gary Zukav
#88. Alcoholism is a genetically predisposed disease and it does run in my family. I also think I felt like a misfit. I was in the South, everybody was blonde. I just didn't feel like I fitted in. It was sort of my way of fitting.
Kristin Davis
#89. We have received a dog with serious eye problems and a skin disease in hopeless stage. The person who brought it here demanded we cure it for free and refused the idea of euthanasia to end its pain.
Min Zhou
#90. Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.
William J. Brennan Jr.
#91. The vast preponderance of evidence in modern epidemiology shows that those who eat more whole plant foods and fewer animal products and processed foods have lower rates of chronic disease and longer lifespans.
Joel Fuhrman
#92. I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.
Jane Fonda
#93. The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capture the citadel does not prove that they are the citadel.
G.K. Chesterton
#94. Do your heart's calling, dear dreamer or be doomed forever in the fire of unfulfilled wishes, a soul disease.
Aporva Kala
#96. It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
Hippocrates
#97. Being Negative and Lazy is a disease that leads to pain, hardship, depression, poor health and failure. Be pro active, and give a damn to achieve success!
Phil Heath
#98. I think you're wonderful. You're the only person I have in this awful, twisted world, and it's incredibly scary, but if I had to fight my way through this disease of a life with one person by my side, I'm glad it's with you. You inspire me to be stronger, and I need to be strong.
Christina L. Barr
#99. Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.
Chris Hedges
#100. To something that looks very different. The thing to understand here is that Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, they're not the disease and they're not the symptom of the disease. They are the beta test of a cure for the perspective of the people.
Ben Domenech
