#disease

Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood. ↗

— Kenneth Tynan

#hollywood #oysters #pearl

Plant diseases, drought, desolation, despair were recurrent catastrophes during the ages - and the ancient remedies: supplications to supernatural spirits or gods. ↗

— Norman Borlaug

#ancient #catastrophes #desolation #despair #diseases

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem. ↗

— Julie Bowen

#i #low #low self-esteem #self-esteem #suffer

National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it. ↗

— Lois Capps

#awareness #become #becomes #celebrated #chance

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

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#catastrophes #deaths #diseases #kill #laugh

I'm fighting a long term disease it's called Death and I will have it until I take my last breath ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#disease #life #reality #death

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

Fear is a communicable disease; it comes out in the sweat and passes from host to host. Fear is an incendiary agent; it combusts with stupidity. ↗

— Brian McGreevy

#combust #disease #fear #host #incendiary

The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man’s sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#disease #death