Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.
—David Riesman, 1937Quotes
’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbInfectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCThe diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.
—Guy R. Williams, 1975The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020