“"Well, wouldn't that be the ultimate cure?" Aira concluded cheerfully. "The cure for death?"”
Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 32
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“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.”
Section 9
Religio Medici (1643), Part II
“Nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure.”
The Moving Target (1949)
Source: The Drowning Pool
“The only cure for a real hangover is death.”
"Coffee Versus Gin", My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew (1936)
“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”
"War Shrines"
Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies (1922)
As quoted in Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (2009), p. 64
“Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.”
"Doubletake", from The Cure at Troy (1990)
Poetry Quotes, The Cure at Troy
Context: History says don't hope
On this side of the grave.
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
on the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
is reachable from here.
Believe in miracles
and cures and healing wells.
“Cure her?
Curing was unlikely.”
Source: I Am Legend (1954), Ch. 17
Context: His sex drive had diminished, had virtually disappeared. Salvation of the monk, he thought. The drive had to go sooner or later, or no normal man could dedicate himself to any life that excluded sex.
Now, happily, he felt almost nothing; perhaps a hardly discernible stirring far beneath the rocky strata of abstinence. He was content to leave it at that. Especially since there was no certainty that Ruth was the companion he had waited for. Or even the certainty that he could allow her to live beyond tomorrow. Cure her?
Curing was unlikely.
7:87
Variant translation: What cannot be cured by medicaments is cured by the knife, what the knife cannot cure is cured with the searing iron, and whatever this cannot cure must be considered incurable.
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