Incurable Disease Quotes

On this page you will find all the quotes on the topic "Incurable Disease". There are currently 45 quotes in our collection about Incurable Disease. Discover the TOP 10 sayings about Incurable Disease!
The best sayings about Incurable Disease that you can share on Instagram, Pinterest, Facebook and other social networks!
  • Great passions are incurable diseases.

    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.113
  • You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods.

    Robert Collier (2009). “Riches Within Your Reach!”, p.250, Penguin
  • Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.18, Penguin Books India
  • We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.

    Life   Death   Hope  
  • Life is an incurable disease.

    Life   Success   Disease  
    "To Dr. Scarborough" l. 111 (1656)
  • Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise.

    Hannah Arendt (1972). “Crises of the Republic: Lying in Politics; Civil Disobedience; On Violence; Thoughts on Politics and Revolution”, p.170, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • ...if it comes to a choice between regulated studies on a few animals and a treatment for an incurable disease... most people reluctantly make the same choice.

    Animal   People   Choices  
  • You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.

    Robert Collier (2012). “The Secret of the Ages”, p.89, Courier Corporation
  • Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.

    Song: Cockamamie Business
  • I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition.

    Mercedes McCambridge (1981). “The quality of mercy: an autobiography”, Crown
  • The required techniques of effective reasoning are pretty formal, but as long as programming is done by people that don't master them, the software crisis will remain with us and will be considered an incurable disease. And you know what incurable diseases do: they invite the quacks and charlatans in, who in this case take the form of Software Engineering gurus.

    "Answers to questions from students of Software Engineering" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. November 28, 2000.
  • It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married).

    Girl   Baby   Cancer  
  • A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.

    Martha Gellhorn, Caroline Moorehead (2006). “The letters of Martha Gellhorn”, Vintage
  • My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin.

    Travel   Judging   Skins  
  • To a psychoanalyst, a woman pilot, particularly a married one with children, must prove an interesting as well as an inexhaustible subject. Torn between two loves, emotionally confused, the desire to fly an incurable disease eating out your life in the slow torture of frustration-she cannot be a simple, natural personality.

    Louise Thaden (1973). “High, Wide and Frightened”, p.92, University of Arkansas Press
  • When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.

    Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.113, Beacon Press
  • My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

  • Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions

    David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.1534, Delphi Classics
  • Environmental pollution is an incurable disease. It can only be prevented.

    "At 90, an Environmentalist From the '70s Still Has Hope". Interview With Thomas Vinciguerra, www.nytimes.com. June 19, 2007.
  • You never know when you're making a memory.

    Song: Young Blood, 1990
  • Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

    Alain de Botton (2012). “How Proust Can Change Your Life”, p.59, Pan Macmillan
  • When you get your self realization or your second birth you become entitled to an awareness by which you can find out the roots of everything. You can find out the roots why people get sick, you can find out why there are incurable diseases, you can find out why there are psychological problems, you can find out why there are moral crisises, you can find out why there are political problems, why there are economic problems.

    Love   Wisdom   Yoga  
    Nirmala Srivastava's speech during the Public Program Day 1 at Audimax University in Vienna, Austria, www.amruta.org. October 12, 1987.
  • The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

  • In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life.

    Thinking   Ideas   Sick  
    "Chat transcript: Model lives with chronic disease". edition.cnn.com. May 27, 1999.
  • If you're unable to catch it in time, the cancer can spread to the lymph nodes and at that point, the cancer is essentially incurable, but that doesn't mean your condition can't be improved.

  • Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

    Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.257
  • You can do anything you think you can.

  • Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.

    Nursing   Blood   Fever  
  • We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement. When we are no longer able to change a situation-just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer-we are challenged to change ourselves.

    Cancer   Fate   Thinking  
    Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.111, Beacon Press
  • We cannot step aside and say that we have achieved our goal by inventing a new drug or a new way by which to treat presently incurable diseases, a new way to help those who suffer from malnutrition, or the creation of ideal balanced diets on a worldwide scale. We cannot rest till the way has been found, with our help, to bring our finest achievement to everyone.

    Science   Medicine   Goal  
Page 1 of 2
  • 1
  • 2
  • We hope our collection of Incurable Disease quotes has inspired you! Our collection of sayings about Incurable Disease is constantly growing (today it includes 45 sayings from famous people about Incurable Disease), visit us more often and find new quotes from famous authors!
    Share our collection of quotes on social networks – this will allow as many people as possible to find inspiring quotes about Incurable Disease!