Disease And Death Quotes

• All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.

  Thomas Mann

  Expression, Interest In Life, Communicable Diseases

  'The Magic Mountain' (1924) ch. 6, sect. 7

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• Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

  Samuel Johnson

  Death, Equality, Disease

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.257

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• It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.

  Terry Pratchett

  Alzheimer's, Two, Knowing

  "'A butt of my own jokes': Terry Pratchett on the disease that finally claimed him" by Terry Pratchett, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2015.

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• We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

  Thomas Browne

  Death, Disease, Cures

  'Religio Medici' (1643) pt. 2, sect. 9

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• Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that.

  Epictetus

  Carpe Diem, Wish, Needs

  Epictetus (1925). “Epictetus: the Discourses as reported by Arrian, the Manual, and fragments”

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• But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.

  Alexander Pope

  Luxury, Succeed, Avengers

  Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete, with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death”, p.88

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• The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

  Mother Teresa

  Butterfly, Being In Love, Helping Others

  Quoted in the Observer, 3 Oct 1971.

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• Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Political, Important

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 1, sc. 4, l. 90

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• Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Sadness

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Country, Real

  Mark Twain (1889). “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court”, p.100, Createspace Independent Pub

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• How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

  Rachel Carson

  Intelligent, Kind, Environment

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Causes, Eating, Intemperance

  Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.119, Applewood Books

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• Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.

  Petr Skrabanek

  Journey, Men, Medicine

  The Death of Humane Medicine (1994)

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• Think what a contribution selfish people of great talent could have made if their commitments had been made to Jesus Christ instead of to themselves! We will do better in every aspect of our lives if we commit to a God in whose life we see miracles, power over disease and death.

  Vaughn J Featherstone

  Jesus, Selfish, Commitment

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• We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.

  William James

  Sight, Attention, Fiction

  William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.88, Library of America

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• Prostitution means sexual intercourse between a man and a woman aimed at satisfying the man's sexual and the woman's economic needs. It is obvious that sexual needs, even in a male dominated system, are not as urgent and important as economic needs which, if not satisfied, lead to disease and death. Yet society considers the woman's economic need as less vital than the man's sexual one.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Mean, Men, Important

  Nawal El Saadawi (2007). “The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World, Second Edition”, p.84, Zed Books

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• I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

  Emma Thompson

  Witty, People, Funeral

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• When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

  Edward Abbey

  Mean, Writing, Earthquakes

  "Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness". Book by Edward Abbey ("Down the River", p. 147), 1968.

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• The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

  Brennan Manning

  Real, War, Grace

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.65, Multnomah

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• The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in three minutes gulping down their food like the [dog] under the table which when a chunk of meat is thrown down to it swallows it before you can say 'twice.' If you want a reform carry out the advice I have just given you. Dispense with your multitudinous dishes, and, depend upon it, you will do much towards preserving your families from sickness, disease and death.

  Brigham Young

  Dog, Men, Advice

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• Even the rich aren't often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn't make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Buddhism

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.

  James A. Garfield

  Ignorance, Dark, Light

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 1”, p.453, Best Books on

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