Bill Gates Quotes

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.

Then I got a bad back injury, and they thought I wasn't going to have any feeling in my legs.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

What a strange distance there is between ill people and well ones.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of languor and suffering an image of death.

There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.

There are some sick people in this world.

Cancer is something that, tragically, affects almost all of our lives.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Having been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1998, and I am continually amazed by the level of support I receive from individuals across the country.

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

Cancer does not discriminate.

My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.

When you walk through the hospital, you waiver between feeling bad for everyone else and feeling bad for yourself. It's a war of the worlds - the healthy and the sick.

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

I think some people do want to die, and they will get a disease. There are people who know their lives are so troubled, and their bodies are getting them out of here.

Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.

The person who is ill not merely suffers pain but is rendered unfit to meet his ordinary social responsibilities; he is incapacitated for service to those about him, some of whom may be directly dependent upon him. Moreover, his removal from the sphere of social relations does not merely leave a blank where he was; it involves a wrench upon the sympathies and affections of others.