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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.

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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

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

Quotes by Aeschylus

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

Quotes by Aeschylus

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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

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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

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Life is an incurable disease.

Quotes by Abraham Cowley

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

Quotes by Yusuf Hamied

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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

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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

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

Quotes by Yolanda Hadid

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.