Disease Quotes

Cured yesterday of my disease, I died last night of my physician.

Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.

Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes…If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain of accumulating stresses that we must look.

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.

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.

There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.

What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.

The law discovers the disease, and the gospel the physician.

The disease of the heart is worse than the disease of the body.

The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.

Seriousness is a disease of the ego

If abandoning animal research means that there are some things we cannot learn, then so be it ... We have no basic right ... not to be harmed by those natural diseases we are heir to.

There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

As houses well stored with provisions are likely to be full of mice, so the bodies of those that eat much are full of diseases.

Everything in food works together to create health or disease.

To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.

First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.

I'll remind you one more time, I've treated a lot of vegans for heart disease.

Heart disease is a foodborne illness.

Doctors should first understand the cause of disease, then treat it with diet. Medicine should only be used if diet fails

You do have to love your kids enough to let them hate you. But it's the disease that's hating you, not them.

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age...

A plant-based diet is more likely to produce good health and to reduce sharply the risk of heart problems, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, gallstones, and kidney disease.

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

Don't get the green disease of envy. Don't be fooled by success and money. Don't let anything come between you and your work.

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.

Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

To get everything you want is not a good thing. Disease makes health seem sweet. Hunger leads to the appreciation of being full-fed. Tiredness creates the enjoyment of resting

Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.

As a physician, I am embarrassed by my profession's lack of interest in healthier lifestyles. We need to change the way we approach chronic disease.

Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them.

You cannot escape from the biological law of cause and effect - food choices are the most significant cause of disease and premature death.

Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy.

If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference.

From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms.

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there's nothing we can do.

Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.

Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

Racism is a disease in society. We're all equal. I don't care what their colour is, or religion. Just as long as they're human beings they're my buddies.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, pompous frills, and meaningless jargon.