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Disease Quotes

Illness, metaphor, and the will to endure.

This page pairs quotes about literal illness with quotes that use disease as a political metaphor - one speaker names debt as the single most corrosive force in a nation's history, another describes the private grief of a cancer diagnosis. Related reading includes Health.

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.

Quotes by Aeschylus

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

Quotes by Aeschylus

I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.

Quotes by Aeschylus

What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it - the process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialized language, can ironically make one lose sight of...

Quotes by Abraham Verghese

Diagnosis Quotes

When I use the word 'healing,' by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the...

Quotes by Abraham Verghese

Life is an incurable disease.

Quotes by Abraham Cowley

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

Quotes by Yusuf Hamied

I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no...

Quotes by Yuvraj Singh

We who suffer from chronic Lyme can only ask for our loved ones to try to understand and be compassionate about this invisible disease.

Quotes by Yolanda Hadid

Diseased Quotes

Getting chronic Lyme disease is probably the fastest way to figure out what and who is real in your life.

Quotes by Yolanda Hadid

The Lyme disease had so severely affected my brain functioning that it was extremely hard for me to think, form sentences, and stay focused.

Quotes by Yolanda Hadid

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

Quotes by Xavier Becerra

Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.

Quotes by Xavier Becerra

Arthritis, Crohn's disease, psoriasis, depression - all of those diseases are a result of our neglected biochemistry. We need to be stimulated to help fight disease. Cold is a great stimulator.

Quotes by Wim Hof

Diseases Quotes

I want to stop war, and I want to stop disease.

Quotes by Wim Hof

The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

Quotes by William Osler

Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease.

Quotes by William Osler

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

Quotes by William Osler

The fear of life is the favorite disease of the 20th century.

Quotes by William Lyon Phelps

Health Quotes

The aim of medicine is to prevent disease and prolong life, the ideal of medicine is to eliminate the need of a physician.

Quotes by William J. Mayo

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there a quote calling debt the "disease" of republics?
Yes, one quote reads, "Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people."
Is there a personal quote about facing a cancer diagnosis?
Yes -- one quote shares a candid personal reflection: "I cried like a baby. When no one could see me or hear me. Not because I feared what cancer would do, but because I didn't want the disease. I wanted my life to be normal, which it could no longer be." It's presented here as that speaker's own honest account of coping with the disease.
Is there a hopeful quote about living with AIDS?
Yes, one quote reads, "AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease," framing it as a manageable condition.
Is there a quote about the art of medicine and disease?
Yes, one quote reads, "The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease."
Where can I find more quotes about health and illness?
See the Health or Illness collections.

Later entries take a more hopeful turn, noting that a diagnosis once considered a death sentence can now be managed as a chronic condition. For closely related pages, see Diagnosis or Diseases.