Top 137 Diseased Quotes & Sayings

Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans

Where the roots of private virtue are diseased, the fruit of public probity cannot but be corrupt.

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.

World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue

We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in healthy love of change that the Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed.

Acting in theatre or television or screen is only for the irrecoverably diseased, those so smitten with the need that there is no choice.

Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing.

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

Tender inner weaknesses, revolting at mild touches of censure, are like diseased parts of the body, recoiling before even delicate handling.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death; I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

Dysfunctional muscles are generally not diseased, aging, or broken. They are starved of motion.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

Diversity has been written into the DNA of American life; any institution that lacks a rainbow array has come to seem diminished, if not diseased.

The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.

Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions.

Oftentimes people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'

We work crazy hours in Silicon Valley; my wife says we're all kind of diseased in some way. We're totally obsessive compulsive - when we see an idea, we're like, 'let me in, it's so much fun.'

I'm an American. We're a people diseased with progress.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

When the liver is diseased, the eyesight fails; when the kidneys are diseased, the hearing is adversely affected. The disease is not visible, but its effects are. Therefore, enlightened people, wishing to be free from obvious faults, first get rid of hidden faults.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

The shepherd will deny the diseased lamb in fear of the flock.

I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

Look at your body— A painted puppet, a poor toy Of jointed parts ready to collapse, A diseased and suffering thing With a head full of false imaginings. —The Dhammapada

Plum puffs can't minister to a mind diseased or a world that's crumbling to pieces

To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.

The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased

If people are hungry, ill-clad, unsheltered or diseased, nothing is so important as to remedy their condition.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

By disgracing and degrading the presidency of the United States, by fleeing the White House like a diseased cur, Richard Nixon broke the heart of the American Dream.

we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.

Physicians are the cobblers, rather the botchers, of men's bodies; as the one patches our tattered clothes, so the other solders our diseased flesh.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience (in this case, the judge or the jury) that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.

as a physician I examine the dying planet as I do a dying patient. The earth has a natural system of interacting homeostatic mechanisms similar to the human body's. If one system is diseased, like the ozone layer, then other systems develop abnormalities in function - the crops will die, the plankton will be damaged, and the eyes of all creatures on the planet will become diseased and vision impaired.

There are three types of disease: body disease, mind disease, and nervous system disease. When the mind is diseased, the whole body is diseased. The yoga scriptures say “Manayeva manu ? ? kara a bandha mok ayo (this verse may be transliterated incorrectly),” the mind is the cause of both bondage and liberation. If the mind is sick and sad, the whole body gets sick, and all is finished. So first you must give medicine to the mind. Mind medicine: that is yoga.

A healer of others, himself diseased.

Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.

First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased the canker spread.

Slaves who are underfed, diseased, resentful, despairing, and filled with hate will never yield that maximum of output which they might achieve under normal conditions.

only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

When love grows diseased, the best thing we can do is to put it to a violent death. I cannot endure the torture of a lingering and consumptive passion.

The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal.

"Multiple exclamation marks," he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind."

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

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.

The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.

You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone.

War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.

Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simply may not exist for certain diseased tissues that need to be replaced.