“No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
As quoted in Secrets of Superstar Speakers: Wisdom from the Greatest Motivators of Our Time (2000) by Lilly Walters, p. 96
“No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
“Oliver… well. Who knew if Oliver’s problem was the disease or just a bad attitude?”
Rachel Caine (1962) American writer
Source: Carpe Corpus
Alan Keyes (1950) American politician
Speech at McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah, September 22, 2000. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/00_09_22mckay.htm. <br class="br">2000
“Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.”
Frank Herbert book Children of Dune
Source: Children of Dune
“One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.”
Karl Kraus (1874–1936) Czech playwright and publicist
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“I am skilled now, at casting iron
To make a hardened bed for my heavy world”
Happy Rhodes (1965) American singer-songwriter
"One And Many"
Find Me (2007)
“… humanity is a disease, a cancer on the body of the world.”
Scott Westerfeld book Pretties
Variant: humanity is a cancer on the body of the world
Source: Pretties
“Growing old: the most common mitochondrial disease of all?”
Anita Harding (1952–1995) neurologist
Title of article published in Natural Genetics (1992), 2:251-2; cited in Stephen Waxman (2010) Molecular Neurology. p. 536
Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist
Source: Full House (1996), p. 47