Disease Quotes - Page 29

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.

Thanks to modern medicine we are no longer forced to endure prolonged pain, disease, discomfort and wealth.

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.

Virtue consists in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

We cause our diseases. We are directly responsible for any illness that happens to us.

Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness.

The confidence that God is mindful of the individual is of tremendous value in dealing with the disease of fear, for it gives us a sense of worth, of belonging, and of at homeness in the universe.

A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.

Anyone who wants to pretend that your Huntington's disease is an invention is someone who does not have your best interests at heart.

This 'users are idiots, and are confused by functionality' mentality of Gnome is a disease. If you think your users are idiots, only idiots will use it.

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.

Building prisons to fight crime is like building cemeteries to fight disease.

A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor, will be known only after death; and even then not without an autopsy will you examine it with exacting pains. But rare are those among the extremely busy clinicians who are willing or capable of doing this correctly.

Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather than in its disturbances and diseases.

Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.