Diseased Quotes

• A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world.

  Harvey Cushing

  Men, Ayurveda, Views

  Man Adapting Ch. 12 (René J. Dubois)

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• Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

  R. D. Laing

  Life, Success, Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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• 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.

  William Osler

  Life, Health, Law

  William Osler (1927). “Aequanimitas”, p.189, Ravenio Books

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• When it comes to bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion... Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do.

  George Carlin

  Men, Sky, People

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• If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed.

  George Carlin

  Atheism, Best God, Can Do

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.

  William Osler

  Health, Practice Of Medicine, Important

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• Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.

  George Carlin

  Religious, Atheist, Men

  "You Are All Diseased". Documentary, Comedy, 1999.

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• When it comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, League, Bullshit

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• This is a diseased century. We diagnosed the disease and its causes with microscopic exactness, but whenever we applied the healing knife a new sore appeared. Our will was hard and pure, we should have been loved by the people, but they hate us. Why are we so odious and detested? We brought you truth and in our mouth it sounded like a lie. We brought you freedom, and it looks in our hands like a whip. We brought you the living life, and where our voice is heard the trees wither and there is a rustling of dry leaves. We brought you the promise of the future, but our tongue stammered and barked.

  Arundhati Roy

  Lying, Hate, Live Life

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• A healer of others, himself diseased.

  Plutarch

  Healer

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• If, as you believe there is an Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, who created the earth or universe, please let me know, first of all, as to why he created this world. This world which is full of woe and grief, and countless miseries, where not even one person lives in peace....Where is God? What is He doing? Is He getting a diseased pleasure out of it? A Nero! A Genghis Khan! Down with Him!

  Bhagat Singh

  Grief, Believe, Nero

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• Shall the hag Evil die with the child of Good, Or propagate again her loathèd kind, Thronging the cells of the diseased mind, Hateful with hanging cheeks, a withered brood, Though hourly pastured on the salient blood?

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Children, Cells, Blood

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• Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Brain, Mind

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

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• We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

  John Ruskin

  Rose, Healthy, Gothic

  John Ruskin (1854). “On the Nature of Gothic Architecture: And Herein of the True Functions of the Workman in Art ...”, p.16

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• War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.

  Storm Jameson

  Strong, War, Men

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Company Parade”, p.230, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

  Richard Selzer

  Healthy, Alive, Body

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• The truest definition of evil is that which represents it as something contrary to nature; evil is evil because it is unnatural; a vine which should bear olive-berries, an eye to which blue seems yellow, would be diseased; an unnatural mother, an unnatural son, an unnatural act, are the strongest terms of condemnation.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Mother, Eye, Son

  Frederick William Robertson (1858). “Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton: Third Series”, p.23

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• Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.

  Eliot Engel

  Cells, Adults, Needs

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• The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pride, Men, Political

  George Bernard Shaw "The Progressive" (1910)

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• Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which we live.

  Daniel Taylor

  Broken, Healthy, Stories

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• The leading and characteristic features of the morbid state to which I would direct your attention are, anaemia, general languor and debility, remarkable feebleness of the heart's action, irritability of the stomach, and a peculiar change of the colour in the skin, occurring in connection with a diseased condition of the suprarenal capsules.

  Thomas Addison

  Change, Heart, Skins

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• Dysfunctional muscles are generally not diseased, aging, or broken. They are starved of motion.

  Pete Egoscue

  Broken, Aging, Muscles

  Pete Egoscue (2009). “Pain Free for Women: The Revolutionary Program for Ending Chronic Pain”, p.17, Bantam

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• His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Mother, World, Illness

  Kurt Vonnegut (2009). “Mother Night: A Novel”, p.257, Dial Press

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• In the mouth of Society are many diseased teeth, decayed to the bones of the jaws. But Society makes no effort to have them extracted and be rid of the affliction. It contents itself with gold fillings.

  Khalil Gibran

  Effort, Society, Gold

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• Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Body, Hysterical, Ennui

  Letter to Martha Jefferson, 28 March (1787)

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