(1772 quotes found)
“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
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”
Voltaire
“Love is a serious mental disease.”
Plato
“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
“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”
Buddha
“(Bias against the Negro) is the worst disease from which the society of our nation suffers”
Albert Einstein
“Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.”
Thomas S. Szasz
“Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und”
“Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.”
Maggie Kuhn