These are real illnesses of a real organ, the brain, just like coronary artery disease is a disease of a real organ, the heart.

It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth, in other words to silence.

I wasn’t sure of it, but I was almost certain that loneliness was a disease. An infectious, disgusting illness that was slow to creep into your system and overtake you, even though you tried to...

I had the idea of ‘Live From Daryl’s House’ way before I contracted Lyme disease.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

If you walked into your local convenience store and bought a package of cigars, you would notice that it carries a label warning of the potential dangers of cigar smoke. Yet research suggests that cigar...

Nationalism is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!

As men’s prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect.

Long before there were effective treatments, physicians dispensed prognoses, hope, and, above all, meaning. When something terrible happens-and serious disease is always terrible-people want to know why. In a pantheistic world, the explanation was simple-one...

Obesity is a major modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease.

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

I don’t like Heather Graham. She did an interview and said, ‘I didn’t want to kiss Corey; I didn’t want to catch his mononucleosis. He had a kissing disease.’

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

Poverty doesn’t say so much about God as it says about us.

With any disease in wildlife, there are so many factors, getting a good handle on it can be difficult.

They’re like pacemakers. They’re abnormal signals that they’re trying to bring back to normal. Parkinson’s disease leads to an abnormal firing pattern in a specific part of the brain and these brain pacemakers have been...

Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.

Substantial reassessment is needed of the importance of obesity for cardiovascular disease in most regions of the world,

Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So...

Racism is a deadly disease that clings to the soul and rots it until a vile stench that disgusts and irritates the ears of a moral person, is all that is left of a moving...

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

To list all the great discoveries in the field of science and medicine during the past century, such as aspirin, insulin, penicillin, and the streptomycin drugs would require the undivided attention of a medical historian...

We don’t know how the disease got into Nigeria.

There is no disease, no sickness, no problem, and no circumstance that cannot be overcome by the healing power of God’s love. God wants to heal you! He wants you to be made whole. Call...

Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it’s a cure.

Pride is a very dangerous disease that can turn your talent, asset, and achievements into a handicap.

I worked on Mauna Kea for over five years and saw my health severely degrade during that time. Thetwo long term summit workers that I knew well died of disease conditions, another worker went on...

As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific fashion–that is to say, objectively, amorally, intellectually.All those who have written...

From thy entrails, canals, rectum, and abdomen; from thy belly, guts, and navel I do tear out the disease.

Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.

Limerence is an obsessive, unrequited love. It is actually a disorder. A disease if you will.

For in disease the most voluntary or most special movements, faculties, etc., suffer first and most, that is in an order the exact opposite of evolution. Therefore I call this the principle of Dissolution.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

The disease is following the best roads.

It’s an important point to make that the disease is difficult to spread.

Like the most of you, I was raised among people who knew – who were certain. They did not reason or investigate. They had no doubts. They knew that they had the truth. In their...

This is one of the most rapidly growing diseases in the world.

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn’t matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.

When I was suddenly thrust into what everyone calls menopause (Orchids) earlier than my body planned, I decided someone needed to take charge on so many levels. It was time to not only change the...

Every citizen who stops smoking, or loses a few pounds, or starts managing his chronic disease with real diligence, is caulking a crack for the benefit of us all.

I checked with our infectious disease specialist and we’ve not had any cases here yet. So far so good I guess. We’ve had a number of people tested who came in with symptoms, but none...

She was few inches taller than him and when for the first time her promising eyes met with his, he knew it would be more than friendship. He was too young to name that feeling...

Our findings suggest that substantial reassessment is needed of the importance of obesity for cardiovascular disease in most regions of the world.

Our tainted world looms within us, every one.

It was easy to imagine the beginning of time here, but also, perhaps, its end.

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

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945