Disease Quotes

“As Sicknesse is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes is solitude; when the infectiousness of the disease deterss them who should assist from coming; even the Phisician dares scarse come... it is an Outlawry, and excommunication upon the patient....”
― John Donne, Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

“We cannot imagine these diseases, they are called idiopathic, spontaneous in origin, but we know instinctively there must be something more, some invisible weakness they are exploiting. It is impossible to think they fall at random, it is unbearable to think it.”
― James Salter, Light Years

“In the beginning they would do anything to see you. This was the lovebombing stage.”
― Tracy A. Malone

“Common sense tells us that as long as people exist, disease will always coexist with us. And the same holds true for our social lives — as long as there are people, there will always be those diseased people (what I mean is those ethically corrupt boneheads) living among us.

During times of stability, our lives are ordinary and routine, and the peace and quiet of the monotonous everyday gradually conceals the great kindness and the horrific evil that humans are capable of.”
― Fang Fang, Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City

“Up to that time most of the Pimas and Maricopas wore long hair. One of the first steps towards their 'civilization' was to get them to cut their hair. Finding this a difficult problem, the agency offered a hat to anyone who cut his hair.
...
The [United States government-run] agency had a hard time getting those Pimas to give up their olas-ki [round houses] to build and live in adobe houses. Adobe houses were supposed to be more civilized than the old arrow-weed shelters. But the Pimas did not want to change. So the agency issued a wagon to any Pima family who would build and live in an adobe house. The only thing was, they forgot to issue plans, so a Pima who wanted a free wagon built an adobe house according to his old ideas of a house, with a small door and no windows. These were warm on the few cold nights, but there was no ventilation.
Some older people in my own family did what the agency told them to do. They built and lived in an adobe house. When they died they all died of tuberculosis.
[pages 49 and 50, Progress]”
― George Webb, A Pima Remembers

“She shivered and though, the words coming freely into her mind, Hill House is vile, it is diseased; get away from here at once.”
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House

“The human race was ill-prepared for such a calamity of events to unfold.”
― Asa Don Brown

“COVID-19 is expected to increase the rates of disease in the survivors.”
― Steven Magee

“She had caught him like a visceral disease which grew and spread inside him. Her presence was the remedy, her absence filled the air. He had grown used to her like a queasy, a sick man to his medicine; just like it happens then, the more of her was the less of her.”
― Teufel Damon

“Clinics and Hospitals are courts where you get accused of allowing foreign nutrients to invade your immune system. You plead guilty of the xenophobic attacks and then get sentenced to medication for your life, not knowing that healer is the ground you stand on, grounds that breeds life.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is a COVID-19 disaster.”
― Steven Magee

“It was as if everyone in the whole world had departed, leaving me alone in it, and I thought this must be what Hell is like. Not hot and full of pain and confusion, but cool and grey and empty, where you are shut out of everywhere, yet cannot leave.”
― Sarah Burton, The Strange Adventures of H

“Researching Magee’s Disease led me to conclude that I was suffering from malnutrition, despite being 30 pounds overweight.”
― Steven Magee

“Symptoms of a sickness are not necessarily signs of weakness, rather they imply that your body is actively fighting the sickness. And when all the resources of the body fall short to fight the sickness, that's when the real trouble begins.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Bad backs are an occupational disease of nursing.”
― Steven Magee

“While it would have been easier to jump off a cliff, developing the diagnosis and treatment of High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) was a problem that needed to be solved.”
― Steven Magee

“The nice thing about pioneering a new disease is you get to name it.”
― Steven Magee

“When the medical profession could not diagnose my illness, it fell onto me to characterize and define a new condition called ‘Magee’s Disease’.”
― Steven Magee

“Bright Light Adaptation Disease may occur with aging, as radiation exposures are cumulative.”
― Steven Magee

“Disobedience is a disease.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“All disease, she {Mary Baker Eddy}, asserted in her 1876 first edition of 'Science and Health,' the bible of her new faith, was a fiction of the soul. Neither disease nor matter existed. Both were creations of the soul which symbolized the universal mind, of Jesus Christ, at work.”
― Nancy Rubin Stuart, The Reluctant Spiritualist: A Life of Maggie Fox

“Bright Light Adaptation Disease (BLAD) is a form of Outdoor Adaptation Disease (OAD).”
― Steven Magee

“Equatorial Adaptation Disease (EAD): People that have biologically adapted to the tropics and become sick outside of the tropics.”
― Steven Magee

“Continuous daytime full spectrum 10,000 lux light therapy for Bright Light Adaptation Disease (BLAD) made me feel sickly and caused headaches during the first week of treatment.”
― Steven Magee

“The treatment I used for Bright Light Adaptation Disease was a daily high dose of vitamins B6, B9, and B12 in conjunction with bright light therapy.”
― Steven Magee

“The low light indoor environment becomes biologically toxic to people with Bright Light Adaptation Disease (BLAD).”
― Steven Magee

“And my mind - another disease, the disease of a disease. Everywhere my mind sees the disease of other minds and other bodies, these other organisms that are only other diseases, an absolute nightmare of the organism.”
― Thomas Ligotti, Teatro Grottesco

“The California forest fires may lead to increased disease rates in their population.”
― Steven Magee

“When we live in a state of dis-ease, we eventually end up creating disease. The genetically weaker parts of our body become more susceptible to ailment. Although the experience of falling ill has been challenging and difficult, it has nevertheless brought me an immense opportunity to dig deeper and connect with the wisdom within me. This is why I am a big believer of the concept of our unlimited nature. There is so much we are yet to discover about our true nature; the nature of being a soul and an empowered being, a conscious creator and connecting to the endless loving stream of the Universe.”
― Sarah Dakhili

“Every day I wake up with High Altitude Disease (HAD).”
― Steven Magee