Diseases Quotes

Diseases desperate grown
By desperate appliance are relieved,
Or not at all.

– William Shakespeare

Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 3. For a worried Claudius, outed by Hamlet as his father’s killer, desperate diseases (like Hamlet) are best healed by desperate measures, or they won’t be cured at all. Thus he hatches a plot to get Hamlet out of Denmark and have him killed.

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

– Mother Teresa

Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.

– Hippocrates

Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.

– Jessica Valenti

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

– Euripides

In all Diseases strengthen the part of the Body afflicted.

– Nicholas Culpeper

The hope is that if we can increase youthfulness, we can postpone age-related diseases.

– Cynthia Kenyon

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

– John Ray

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

Death is the cure for all diseases.

– Thomas Browne

Cancer is not one disease but many diseases.

– Siddhartha Mukherjee

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

– Serge Lang

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

– Serge Lang

Roughly speaking, this hypothesis asks whether drug use causes some of the diseases officially associated with AIDS, such as immunodeficiency and Kaposi’s sarcoma.

– Serge Lang