#disease

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#causes #conscience #disease #endless #fills

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. ↗

— Victor Borge

#caught #cure #died #disease #father

We have a responsibility to promote stem cell research which could lead to treatments and cures for diseases affecting millions of Americans. ↗

— Louise Slaughter

#cell #cell research #could #cures #diseases

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#disease #doctors #life #medical-training #medicine

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#good-and-evil #humanity #infectious-diseases #summary #ugliness

Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you ­finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die. ↗

— Anne Enright

#disease #inspiration #writing #change

If truth prevails, the contributions of a courageous physician and a brilliant engineer to the conquest of waterborne disease will still be remembered in another hundred years. ↗

— Michael J. McGuire

#drinking-water #michael-j-mcguire #public-health #the-chlorine-revolution #water

Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease. ↗

— John Corry

#become #disease #great #great american #loneliness

As with many life-altering events, an autoimmune illness is almost guaranteed to cause you to re-evaluate your priorities. ↗

— Joan Friedlander

#chronic-illness #life

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#die #disease #lie #love #love