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Disease
The sick soon come to understand that
they live in a different world from that of the
well and that the two cannot communicate
Jessamyn West
Diseases crucify the soul of man,
attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither
them, shrivel them up like old apples,
make them as so many anatomies.
Robert Burton
He who conceals his disease
cannot expect to be cured
Ethiopian Proverb
A bodily disease which we look upon
as whole and entire within itself, may,
after all, be but a symptom of some
ailment in the spiritual part.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Everything that used to
be a sin is now a disease.
Bill Maher
Disease is a physical process
that generally begins that equality
which death completes.
Samuel Johnson
First the doctor told me the
good news: I was going to have
a disease named after me.
Steve Martin
The diseases of the present have little
in common with the diseases of the
past save that we die of them.
Agnes Repplier
The biggest disease today is not
leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather
the feeling of being unwanted
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
There are no such things as
incurables; there are only
things for which man has
not found a cure.
Bernard M. Baruch
We are the carriers of health and
disease - either the divine health of
courage and nobility or the demonic
diseases of hate and anxiety
Joshua Loth Liebman
Every human being is the author
of his own health or disease.
Buddha
The purpose of medicine is to prevent
significant disease, to decrease pain and
to postpone death... Technology has
to support these goals-if not, it may even
be counterproductive.
Dr. Joel J. Nobel
Life is an incurable disease.
Abraham Cowley
Your lifestyle - how you live, eat,
emote, and think - determines your
health. To prevent disease, you may
have to change how you live.
Brian Carter
Life is a sexually transmitted disease
Guy Bellamy
The deviation of man from the state
in which he was originally placed by
nature seems to have proved to him
a prolific source of diseases
Edward Jenner
Hunger (for things) is
the supreme disease.
Buddha
When a lot of remedies are
suggested for a disease, that
means it can't be cured.
Anton Chekhov
He who cures a disease may
be the skilfullest, but he that prevents
it is the safest physician.
Thomas Fuller
As to diseases, make a habit
of two things - to help, or at
least, to do no harm.
Hippocrates
All interest in disease and
death is only another expression
of interest in life.
Thomas Mann
We all labor against our
own cure, for death is the
cure of all diseases
Thomas Browne, Sr.
Diseases of the mind impair
the bodily powers.
Ovid
Disease is the retribution
of outraged Nature
Hosea Ballou
