Incurable Disease Quotes

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  Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

  Barry Commoner

  Environmental, Disease, Pollution

  "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.

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• Life is an incurable disease.

  Abraham Cowley

  Life, Success, Disease

  "To Dr. Scarborough" l. 111 (1656)

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• The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.

  Georges Rouault

  Artist, Names, Joy

  "Stella Vespertina" by Georges Rouault, 1947.

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• There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

  Avicenna

  Teacher, Teaching, Disease

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• We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

  Andrew Greeley

  Life, Death, Hope

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• It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Girl, Baby, Cancer

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• My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.

  Bill Bryson

  Travel, Judging, Skins

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• I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Insanity, Disease, Human Condition

  Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown

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• We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat presently incurable diseases, a new way to help those who suffer from malnutrition, or the creation of ideal balanced diets on a worldwide scale. We cannot rest till the way has been found, with our help, to bring our finest achievement to everyone.

  George W. Bush

  Science, Medicine, Goal

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• Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

  Juvenal

  Writing, Sick, Mind

  "Hissy fit now" by Laura Denham, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2000.

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• There are no such things as incurables. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

  Bernard Baruch

  Health, Science, Men

  Quoted by his son, Simon Baruch, the surgeon, in a speech, 30 April (1954)

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• Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.

  George Harrison

  Rock And Roll, Disease, Rabies

  Song: Cockamamie Business

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• Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

  Alain de Botton

  Love Is, Suffering, Disease

  Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.59, Pan Macmillan

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• Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If it was not like that, there would be no hospital nurses, for compared dispassionately with other professions, the hours are long, the work hard, and the pay inadequate to the amount of concentrated energy required. A nurse, however, does not view her profession dispassionately. It is too much a part of her.

  Monica Dickens

  Hard Work, Nursing, Views

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• The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Engineering, Long, People

  "Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. November 28, 2000.

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• To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two loves, emotionally confused, the desire to fly an incurable disease eating out your life in the slow torture of frustration-she cannot be a simple, natural personality.

  Louise Thaden

  Children, Women, Confused

  Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.92, University of Arkansas Press

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• Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.

  Monica Dickens

  Nursing, Blood, Fever

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• We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement. When we are no longer able to change a situation-just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer-we are challenged to change ourselves.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Cancer, Fate, Thinking

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.111, Beacon Press

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• Great passions are incurable diseases.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Disease, Great Passion

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.113

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• The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

  Voltaire

  Art, Get Well Soon, Health

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• There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people.

  Bernie Siegel

  People, Disease, Homeopathy

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• Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise.

  Hannah Arendt

  Anger, Mean, Earthquakes

  Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Achievement, Tragedy, Triumph

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.87, Beacon Press

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• In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.

  Karen Duffy

  Thinking, Ideas, Sick

  "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". edition.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.

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• How far would you go for someone you love ? Well, when my grandkids ask me how I pledged my love to their grandma, I'll say, I told her I would die for her, after I found out I didn't have an incurable disease. Then, I ran away while grandma was getting her ass kicked by a pregnant woman that grandpa slept with. You never know when you're making a memory.

  Christopher Titus

  Memories, Grandma, Grandpa

  "Titus / The Test". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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