Explore Quotes on Disease

Breast cancer isn't one disease - it's probably four or five different types, and without knowing what type a person has, you can't optimize treatment for them.

If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.

Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We're just a disease on this planet.

All my humor is based on destruction and despair. If the whole world were tranquil, without disease and violence, I'd be standing in the bread line - right in back of J. Edgar Hoover.

I want to show the world that there is more to Africa than poverty, hunger, and disease.

The best way to end poverty is to simply give people work, which isn't considered 'sexy' among donors who want to fund a preschool or cure a disease.

I'm giving life lessons and tips on how to take care of your emotional heart, because heart disease is the number-one killer in America.

I have degenerative bone disease and I walk with a cane. And when I wrote Six of Crows,' I went out on tour, and I met a lot of readers who would say, 'Oh, I don't know why, but I pictured Kaz as being an old man at first.' And I thought, of course you did, because the only people we see with mobility aids in media and in culture are old.

Addiction is a disease, just like diabetes and heart disease.

Dementia is quite unlike cancer or heart disease or any of those other conditions where you bargain with God for a cure or even just a bit more time.

It really is like a disease. I just couldn't get away from the theater.

Decades of mismanagement have left our nation's forests vulnerable to insects and disease and ripe for catastrophic wildfires.

I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.

A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

Most people, when they hear the disease name, it's all they know about it. It sounds so mild. When I first was sick, for the first 10 years or so, I was dismissed. I was ridiculed and told I was lazy. It was a joke.

This disease leaves people bedridden. I've gone through phases where I couldn't roll over in bed. I couldn't speak. To have it called 'fatigue' is a gross misnomer.

I like to use the platform I have as a professional athlete to educate people about Crohn's and allow kids, mainly, to see that, even though you have a disease, it doesn't mean your wildest dreams can't come true.

If I got a chance to take it back and not have Crohn's disease I don't think I would because it has just made me that much stronger and more resilient of a person.

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

I believe that narcissistic personality disorder is a middle- and upper-class disease because you have to have the means to indulge it; you need money and power. Narcissists create havoc around them. You can't get away with that doing a menial job.

I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.