Disease Quotations
Disease
From WikiquoteDisease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism. It is often construed to be a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs. It may be caused by external factors, such as infectious disease, or it may be caused by internal dysfunctions, such as autoimmune diseases. In humans, "disease" is often used more broadly to refer to any condition that causes pain, dysfunction, distress, social problems, and/or death to the person afflicted, or similar problems for those in contact with the person. In this broader sense, it sometimes includes injuries, disabilities, disorders, syndromes, infections, isolated symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function, while in other contexts and for other purposes these may be considered distinguishable categories. Diseases usually affect people not only physically, but also emotionally, as contracting and living with many diseases can alter one's perspective on life, and their personality.
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- [Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies.
- Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621), Part I, scene 2. Memb. 3. Subsect. 10.
- 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, The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter X.
- As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,
Receives the lurking principle of death,
The young disease, that must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle II, line 133.
- But just disease to luxury succeeds,
And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
- Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle III, line 165.
- O, he's a limb, that has but a disease;
Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.
- William Shakespeare, Coriolanus (c. 1607-08), Act III, scene 1, line 296.
- Diseases desperate grown,
By desperate appliance are reliev'd,
Or not at all.
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act IV, scene 3, line 9.
- This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship; a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.
- William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II (c. 1597-99), Act I, scene 2, line 125.
- Before the curing of a strong disease,
Even in the instant of repair and health,
The fit is strongest; evils that take leave,
On their departure most of all show evil.
- William Shakespeare, King John (1598), Act III, scene 4, line 112.
- I'll forbear;
And am fallen out with my more headier will,
To take the indispos'd and sickly fit
For the sound man.
- William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act II, scene 4, line 110.
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 196.
- The remedy is worse than the disease.
- Francis Bacon, Of Seditions. Duke of Buckingham, Speech in House of Lords, 1675. John Dryden, Juvenal, Satire XVI, line 31. Alain-René Lesage, Gil Blas, Book XII, Chapter VIII. Thomas Middleton, Family of Love, Act V, scene 3.
- Apoplexie, and Lethargie,
As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weekes and Workes, Second Week. First Day, Part III. The Furies.
- Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental inharmony.
- Mary Baker Eddy, Science and Health, Chapter XIV. 20.
- That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty's transient flower.
- Oliver Goldsmith, Double Transformation, line 75.
- Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
- Robert Herrick, Abstinence.
- Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
- Hippocrates, Aphorisms, 6.
- D'ogni pianta palesa l'aspetto
Il difetto, che il tronco nasconde
Per le fronde, dal frutto, o dal fior.
- The canker which the trunk conceals is revealed by the leaves, the fruit, or the flower.
- Metastasio, Giuseppe Riconosciuto I.
- Aëre non certo corpora languor habet.
- Sickness seizes the body from bad ventilation.
- Ovid, Ars Amatoria, II, 310.
- Vitiant artus ægræ contagia mentis.
- Diseases of the mind impair the bodily powers.
- Ovid, Tristium, III, 8, 25.
- Utque in corporibus, sic in imperio, gravissimus est morbus qui a capite diffunditur.
- And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
- Pliny the Younger, Epistles, Book IV. 22. Seneca, De Clementia, Book II. 2.
- Graviora quædam sunt remedia periculis.
- Some remedies are worse than the disease.
- Syrus, Maxims, 301.
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A disease is an abnormal condition affecting the body of an organism. It is often construed to be a medical condition associated with specific symptoms and signs. It may be caused by external factors, such as infectious disease, or it may be caused by internal dysfunctions, such as autoimmune diseases. In humans, "disease" is often used more broadly to refer to any condition that causes pain, dysfunction, distress, social problems, or death to the person afflicted, or similar problems for those in contact with the person. In this broader sense, it sometimes includes injuries, disabilities, disorders, syndromes, infections, isolated symptoms, deviant behaviors, and atypical variations of structure and function, while in other contexts and for other purposes these may be considered distinguishable categories. Diseases usually affect people not only physically, but also emotionally, as contracting and living with many diseases can alter one's perspective on life, and their personality.
Noun
Disease Wikipedia disease (plural diseases)- (pathology) An abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort or dysfunction; distinct from injury insofar as the latter is usually instantaneously acquired.
- The tomato plants had some kind of disease that left their leaves splotchy and fruit withered.
- (by extension) Any abnormal or harmful condition, as of society, people's attitudes, way of living etc.
- N.N., The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7
- War is not man's great and terrible disease; war is a symptom, a result. The real disease is the virus of national sovereignty.
- N.N., The Urantia Book, Paper 134:6.7