Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Quotes
What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.
—Helen Keller, 1936Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbMen worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BCWe should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960