Quote: Which came first the intestine or the tapeworm? Author: William S. Burroughs 1914-1997, American Writer
Quote: Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren't so many of them left. Think it over... no more syphilis, no more clap, no more typhoid... antibiotics have taken half the tragedy out of medicine. Author: Louis-Ferdinand Celine 1894-1961, French Author
Quote: A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect. Author: E. M. Cioran 1911-, Rumanian-born French Philosopher
Quote: It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do. Author: Charles Caleb Colton 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer
Quote: I think the biggest disease this world suffers from…is people feeling unloved. Author: Princess of Wales Diana 1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
Quote: The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability. Author: Edward Dyson
Quote: Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Author: Mary Baker Eddy 1821-1910, American Founder of the Christian Science Church
Quote: All diseases run into one. Old age. Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
Quote: He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician. Author: Thomas Fuller 1608-1661, British Clergyman, Author
Quote: Disease is a vital expression of the human organism. Author: Georg Groddeck
Quote: One might say, for example, that a patient has a kind of St Vitus's dance; a kind of dropsy; a kind of nerve fever; a kind of ague. One would never say, however (to end once and for all the confusion of these names) ''He has St. Vitus's dance,'' ''He has nerve fever,'' ''He has dropsy,'' ''He has ague,'' since there simply are not any fixed, unchanging diseases to be known by such names. Author: Samuel Hahnemann 1755-1843, German Physician, Founder of Homeopathy
Quote: Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease Author: Hippocrates Ancient Greek Physician
Quote: Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. Author: Samuel Johnson 1709-1784, British Author
Quote: Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected. Author: Kabbalah BC 1200?-12700? AD, Jewish Esoteric Doctrine
Quote: He who considers disease results to be the disease itself, and expects to do away with these as diseases, is insane. It is an insanity in medicine, an insanity that has grown out of the milder forms of mental disorder in science, crazy whims. Author: James Tyler Kent 1849-1916, American Homeopathic Teacher, Physician
Quote: The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. Author: Mother Teresa 1910-1997, Albanian-born Roman Catholic Missionary
Quote: Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine. Author: Sean O'Casey 1884-1964, Irish Dramatist
Quote: Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster. Author: Philipus A. Paracelsus German Physician and Chemist
Quote: Diseases are the tax on pleasures. Author: John Ray 1627-1705, British Naturalist
Quote: The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him. Author: George Santayana 1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet
Quote: Disease is not of the body but of the place. Author: Seneca 4 B.C. – 65 A.D., Spanish-born Roman Statesman, philosopher
Quote: Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. Author: Susan Sontag 1933-, American Essayist
Quote: With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the character causes the disease -- because it has not expressed itself. Passion moves inward, striking and blighting the deepest cellular recesses. Author: Susan Sontag 1933-, American Essayist
Quote: We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same. Author: Jonathan Swift 1667-1745, Anglo-Irish Satirist
Quote: Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit. Author: Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist