- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
I was a healthy young man, and I thought I was invincible before I was diagnosed with kidney disease.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if he was happier in Asia than he'd been in Latin America, the wanderlust still worked on my father's insides like a disease. One of the most recurrent memories of my childhood is of him sitting in his armchair in the evenings, poring over atlases the way other fathers read newspapers or books.
- Racism
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cancer is really a DNA disease... We have these certain genes that prevent our cells from growing out of control at the expense of the body. And it's a pretty good, robust system. But if a couple of these genes fail, then that's when cancer starts, and cells start growing out of control.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with these genetic tests, it's not like you're condemned to automatically get the disease or the syndrome. There's a lot of factors in play there.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we do everything right, the best we can do is live out our potential with as little age-related disease and disability as possible.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.
- Nov 07, 2020
Love's a disease. But curable.
- Belief
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- Nov 07, 2020
The belief is growing on me that the disease is communicated by the bite of the mosquito... She always injects a small quantity of fluid with her bite - what if the parasites get into the system in this manner.
- Nov 07, 2020
Discrimination is a disease.
- Chronic
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- Nov 07, 2020