We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845Quotes
Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.
—George W. Bush, 2005If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348