These disease quotes will inspire you. Disease is a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging disease quotes, disease sayings, and disease proverbs.
Best Disease Quotes
- “One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.” ~ Gautama Buddha
- “Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.” ~ Mary Baker Eddy
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“The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.” ~ Hippocrates
- “Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.” ~ Henri Poincare
- “Trash is something you get rid of – or disease. I’m not something you get rid of.” ~ Lana Turner
- “It took more than three thousand years to make some of the trees in these western woods … Through all the wonderful, eventful centuries since Christ’s time-and long before that-God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand straining, leveling tempests and floods; but he cannot save them from fools.” ~ John Muir
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“The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease.” ~ Jacques Chirac
- “I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy’d like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon’d in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump’d, and bruised along the King’s high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!” ~ Erasmus Darwin
- “Opium is the only drug to’ be rely’d on-all the boasted nostrums only take up time, and as the disease [is] often of short duration, or of small quantity, they have gain’d credit which they do not deserve.” ~ Erasmus Darwin
- “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.” ~ Paracelsus
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“Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease.” ~ Daniel Barenboim
- “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.” ~ Robert A. Heinlein
- “What some call health if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.” ~ Alexander Pope
- “Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash insignificance.” ~ Susan Sontag
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“Some remedies are worse than the disease.” ~ Publilius Syrus
- “A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.” ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “It’s hard enough to work and raise a family when your kids are all healthy and relatively normal, but when you add on some kind of disability or disease, it can just be such a burden.” ~ Patricia Heaton
- “The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.” ~ George Santayana
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“What I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable.” ~ Paul Farmer
- “I think eventually they’re going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it’s MS, so let’s take medicine for it” ~ Teri Garr
- “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.” ~ Samuel Hahnemann
- “Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.” ~ David Hyde Pierce
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“No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.” ~ Maimonides
- “The generality have considered that disease is but a confused and disordered effort in Nature, thrown down from her proper state, and defending herself in vain.” ~ Thomas Sydenham
- “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.” ~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
- “For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another’s happiness.” ~ Aeschylus
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“Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.” ~ Ovid
- “Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.” ~ Sophocles
- “Disease is not of the body but of the place.” ~ Seneca the Younger
- “Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.” ~ Mitch Daniels , Chronic disease quotes
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“I still have the actor’s disease. I always think I’ll never get another job.” ~ Roddy McDowall
- “A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.” ~ Emile M. Cioran , Infectious disease quotes
- “All diseases run into one, old age.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I feel coming on a strange disease – humility.” ~ Frank Lloyd Wright
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“Childhood is a disease – a sickness that you grow out of.” ~ William Golding
- “The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.” ~ Mark Twain
- “If people are constantly falling off a cliff, you could place ambulances under the cliff or build a fence on the top of the cliff. We are placing all too many ambulances under the cliff.” ~ Denis Parsons Burkitt
- “Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.” ~ Marian Anderson , Fear of disease quotes
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“Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.” ~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
- “When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.” ~ Pierre Corneille
- “The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.” ~ William E. Gladstone
- “The young physician starts life with 20 drugs for each disease, and the old physician ends life with one drug for 20 diseases.” ~ William Osler
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“I’ve always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.” ~ Loni Anderson
- “Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease.” ~ Steven Hatfill
- “The disease is painless; it’s the cure that hurts.” ~ Katharine Whitehorn , Disease quotes cure
- “And almost every one when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him.” ~ Arthur Hugh Clough
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“Being a foreigner is not a disease.” ~ Alden Nowlan
- “Discrimination is a disease.” ~ Roger Staubach
- “The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.” ~ Mother Teresa
- “Diseases can rarely be eliminated through early diagnosis or good treatment, but prevention can eliminate disease.” ~ Denis Parsons Burkitt
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“We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.” ~ Thomas Browne
- “God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.” ~ John Muir
- “Disease may be defined as “A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment.”” ~ William Thomas Councilman
- “A systemic cleansing and detox is definitely the way to go after each holiday. It is the key to fighting high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, and other health-related illnesses.” ~ Lee Haney , Fighting disease quotes
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“When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.” ~ Ron Paul
- “Misery is a communicable disease.” ~ Martha Graham
- “People don’t die from the old diseases anymore. They die from new ones, but that’s progress, isn’t it? Isn’t it?” ~ Harlan Elison
- “Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.” ~ Wayne Gretzky
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“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
- “Nowhere is it more true that “prevention is better than cure,” than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.” ~ Rudolf Leuckart
- “When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can’t be cured.” ~ Anton Chekhov
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“The doctor has been taught to be interested not in health but in disease. What the public is taught is that health is the cure for disease.” ~ Ashley Montagu
- “If I had my way I’d make health catching instead of disease.” ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
- “This not always in a physician’s power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.” ~ Ovid
A disease is an illness that affects a person, animal, or plant: a condition that prevents the body or mind from working normally.
