“Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?”
Peter Lewis Allen
“One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.”
Mother Teresa
“Alcoholism is a disease, but it's the only one you can get yelled at for having. Goddamn it Otto, you are an alcoholic. Goddamn it Otto, you have Lupis... one of those two doesn't sound right.”
Mitch Hedberg
“I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody [to no one].”
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
Voltaire
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
Plato
“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”
Buddha