Disease Quotes - Page 20

• Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

  Novalis

  Doctors, Musical, Talent

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• We become victims of the great disease of technological society - meaninglessness.

  Doris Janzen Longacre

  Victim, Technological, Meaninglessness

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• The savor of wandering in the ocean of deathless life has rid me of all my asking:
  As the tree is in the seed, so all diseases are in this asking.

  Kabir

  Ocean, Tree, Asking

  Kabir (2013). “Songs of Kabir”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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• The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.

  William Penn

  Prove, Remedy

  William Penn (2003). “Some Fruits of Solitude: Wise Sayings on the Conduct of Human Life”, Herald Press (VA)

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• Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never felt alone.

  Sheryl Crow

  Hands, Threatening, Knows

  "Sheryl Crow: Cancer changed my music". CNN interview, www.cnn.com. January 12, 2007.

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• The practice of 'asanas' and 'pranayama' wards off disease and helps to maintain alertness.

  Sivananda

  Practice, Asana, Alertness

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• There are two things that kill a genius - a fatal disease and contentment.

  Clarence Darrow

  Two, Contentment, Genius

  "Voltaire". Essay by Clarence Darrow, 1916.

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• What I need is courage, and this often fails me. And it is also a fact that since my disease, when I am in the fields I am overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness to such a horrible extent that I shy away from going out. But this will change all the same as time goes on. Only when I stand a painting before my easel do I feel somewhat alive. Never mind, this is going to change too, for now my health is so good that I suppose the physical part of me will gain the victory.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Loneliness, Feelings, Mind

  Vincent van Gogh, Martin Bailey (1990). “Van Gogh, letters from Provence”, Clarkson N Potter Publishers

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• Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Taken, Discovery, Medicine

  "Wizard Edison". The Newark Advocate, January 2, 1903.

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• I knew a witty physician who found theology in the biliary duct, and used to affirm that if there was a disease in the liver, the man became a Calvinist, and if that organ was sound, he became a Unitarian.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Witty, Men, Sound

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1993). “Self-reliance, and Other Essays”, p.86, Courier Corporation

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• Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error in judgment. When a bunch of people begin to do it, it is a social error, a life-style. In this particular life-style the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

  Philip K. Dick

  Memories, Moving, Errors

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So far, I have decided to take whatever my disease can throw at me, and to stay combative even while taking the measure of my inevitable decline. I repeat, this is no more than what a healthy person has to do in slower motion.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Healthy, Decline, Inevitable

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Mortality”, p.42, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain, - only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil. ...This class of evil originates in man's vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.

  Maimonides

  Drinking, Men, Class

  "Guide for the Perplexed". Book by Maimonides, Ch.12, 1190.

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• Doctors cure the more serious diseases with harsh remedies. Curtius Medici graviores morbos asperis remediis curant

  Quintus Curtius Rufus

  Latin, Doctors, Serious

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• Studies indicate that vegetarians often have lower morbidity and mortality rates. . . . Not only is mortality from coronary artery disease lower in vegetarians than in non-vegetarians, but vegetarian diets have also been successful in arresting coronary artery disease. Scientific data suggest positive relationships between a vegetarian diet and reduced risk for obesity, coronary artery disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and some types of cancer.

  John Robbins

  Cancer, Successful, Data

  John Robbins (2010). “The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World”, p.15, Conari Press

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• If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Dust, God Image

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• Sex is the invention of a very clever venereal disease.

  David Cronenberg

  Sex, Clever, Invention

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• Religion is a disease. It is born of fear; it compensates through hate in the guise of authority, revelation. Religion, enthroned in a powerful social organization, can become incredibly sadistic. No religion has been more cruel than the Christian.

  George Amos Dorsey

  Christian, Powerful, Hate

  George Amos Dorsey (1931). “Man's own show: civilization”

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• The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character.

  Carl Jung

  Real, Character, Neurosis

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• Science can lift people out of poverty and cure disease. That, in turn, will reduce civil unrest.

  Stephen Hawking

  Social Unrest, People, Poverty

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• The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

  Stephen Hawking

  Doctors, Years, Two

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• Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

  Upton Sinclair

  Mean, Voice, Pessimism

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• Love is like epidemic diseases. The more one fears it the more likely one is to contract it.

  Nicolas Chamfort

  Love Is, Epidemics, Contracts

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• If emotional issues remain unaddressed over long periods of time, sometimes they can manifest as physical blocks or disease.

  Brandon Bays

  Block, Emotional, Issues

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• The Arab is trying to be pleased with death and murder and mayhem and disease and poverty and political unrest.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Political, Trying, Unrest

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