“To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.”

“(…) Just like a deficiency disease is cured through the supply of the missing factor, so are the diseases of living cured by a good dose of intelligent detachment (viveka-vairagya).”

Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897–1981) Indian guru

“Diseases of the mind are more common and more pernicious than diseases of the body.”
Morbi perniciosiores pluresque sunt animi quam corporis.

Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman

“Violence is a disease, a disease that corrupts all who use it regardless of the cause.”

Chris Hedges (1956) American journalist

“Through my mother's disease I came to know her as Spirit. The name of her disease hardly matters—no more than the name of the disease of your loved one. What matters is seeing through the disease to the sufferer's very essence, to their Soul.”

John Diamond (doctor) (1934) Australian doctor

“The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

“We've all got the disease - the disease of being finite. Death is the basis of all horror.”

David Cronenberg (1943) Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor

“But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.”

Howard Zinn (1922–2010) author and historian

“optimism is a disease”

Salman Rushdie book Midnight's Children

“Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press.”

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008) Russian writer