Disease Quotes - Page 19

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology.

The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.

Why would you help us? (Delphine) I hear stupidity is a fatal disease. Doing my own experimentation to see if that’s true or not. If I survive, we’ll know it’s not. If I die…well, it’ll suck. Bad. And I won’t be happy. (Asmodeus)

To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.

I think diseases have no eyes. They pick with a dizzy finger anyone, just anyone.

Presumption will be easily corrected; but timidity is a disease of the mind more obstinate and fatal.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Insulin resistance is the basis of all of the chronic diseases of aging, because the disease itself is actually aging.

Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.

As every man is hunted by his own daemon, vexed by his own disease, this checks all his activity.

Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.

How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.

Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.

Why are infectious disease doctors the best ones to date? They are the most cultured and sensitive.

Women who put on a few pounds after starting lithium sometimes say the cure is worse than the disease. The weight gain shoots them straight into depression.

Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.

In all Diseases, strengthen the part of the Body afflicted.

Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God, our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries.

The disease of debt has reached the top. And once it reaches the top it has no-where else to go.

Ulcerative colitis can be cured by the operation, but you cannot cure Crohn's disease.

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.

Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases.

I've been working with the National Lung Health Education Program to raise awareness about Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.