Disease Quotes - Page 32

• For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fall, Reading, Writing

  Virginia Woolf, Michael H. Whitworth (2014). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.46, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

  Jane Yolen

  Childhood, Literature

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• And when Hugh would grow progressively Gandhi on me, I'd remind him that these were pests---disease carriers who feasted upon the dead and then came indoors to dance upon our silverware.

  David Sedaris

  Pests, Grows, Carrier

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• What would Kathy say if she knew I let the whole crew eat those Oreos when they never did eat their carrot sticks (which I had so firmly required as prerequisite)? All three of my kids were probably heading for disease (not enough veggies) and jail (not enough discipline).

  Dean Hughes

  Kids, Jail, Discipline

  Dean Hughes (2005). “All Moms Go to Heaven: Reflections”, Deseret Book Company

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• I guess I just couldn't see standing there -- alive, talking, thinking, breathing, being -- one second, and dead the next. It really bothered me. Death by violence isn't the same as dying any other way, accident or disease or old age. It just ain't the same.

  S. E. Hinton

  Thinking, Talking, Breathing

  S. E. Hinton (2012). “That Was Then, This Is Now”, p.50, Penguin

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• Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

  Orson Welles

  Age, Want, Old Age

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• Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds.

  Juvenal

  Writing, Sick, Mind

  "Hissy fit now" by Laura Denham, www.cnn.com. February 22, 2000.

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• Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

  Dorothy Fuldheim

  Happy Birthday, Getting Older, Age

  "Why brands side-line the over-50s at their peril" by Crispin Reed, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2013.

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• There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor.

  Aeschylus

  Health, Limits, Neighbor

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• The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Passion, History, Historian

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• Hope of consciousness is strength.
  Hope of feelings is slavery.
  Hope of body is disease.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Hope, Feelings, Body

  "All and Everything: Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson". Book by George Gurdjieff, 1950.

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• The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

  Joseph Addison

  Jealousy, Jealously, Jealous And Envy

  "The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 1-314".

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• To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

  Laozi

  Book, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• This strange disease of modern life,
  With its sick hurry, its divided aims.

  Matthew Arnold

  Life, Sick, Strange

  'The Scholar-Gipsy' (1853) l. 201

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• Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Simple, Temporary Insanity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• Peace we want because there is another war to fight against poverty, disease and ignorance.

  Indira Gandhi

  Peace, War, Ignorance

  Indira Gandhi, Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti (1975). “The Spirit of India: volumes presented to Shrimati Indira Gandhi by the Indira Gandhi Abhinandan Samiti”

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• There has always been a longing in the human heart for a more just, free, loving and creative society. But it was never before possible to fulfill these aspirations, because we had neither the evolutionary drivers and global crises to force us to change, nor did we have the scientific and technological powers that can free us from the limitations of scarcity, poverty, disease, and ignorance. This is the time of awakening for the social potential movement.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Peace, Time, Heart

  FaceBook post by Barbara Marx Hubbard from Mar 03, 2014

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• Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Peace, War, Years

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 106

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• My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source of untold misery to the human race. I cannot, however, deny that it has made some contributions to civilisation. It helped in early days to fix the calendar, and it caused Egyptian priests to chronicle eclipses with such care that in time they became able to predict them. These two services I am prepared to acknowledge, but I do not know of any others.

  Bertrand Russell

  Race, Views, Two

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.214, Psychology Press

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• Religion is a disease, but it is a noble disease.

  Heraclitus

  Religion, Noble

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• When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Jobs, Maturity

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• From the very beginning you are being told to compare yourself with others. This is the greatest disease; it is like a cancer that goes on destroying your very soul because each individual is unique, and comparison is not possible. I am just myself and you are just yourself. There is nobody else in the world you can be compared with.

  Rajneesh

  Self Esteem, Cancer, Unique

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• Self-esteem is different than conceit. Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world. It makes everyone sick except the one who has it.

  Hartman Rector, Jr.

  Self Esteem, Sick, Different

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• Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

  Edvard Munch

  Courage, Would Be, Boat

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• Where is the delusion when truth is known? Where is the disease when the mind is clear? Where is death when the Breath is controlled? Therefore surrender to Yoga.

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

  Yoga, Mind, Surrender

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