Brit Marling Quotes

Disease is a vital expression of the human organism.

I'm recovering from a cold. I'm so full of penicillin that, if I sneeze, I'll cure someone.

A small cold and cough can actually stop you from going where you are.

Over the past few days I have been fighting off a virus that has affected the majority of my band and crew.

Thanks to evolution, our bodies have powerful ways to ward off illness and infection and enable us to live long and healthy lives. Why, then, do health costs continue to climb at unsustainable and frightening rates?

There are some sick people in this world.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

I had never heard of staph until I got it. Didn't really know what was. Still don't really know what it is, but I know you just don't want to have it.

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

AIDS itself is subject to incredible stigma.

The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.

I wish that person outside would stop coughing.

Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you.

In 1996, when I was being treated for leukaemia, at one point I had a vicious infection that was trying to claim me. Mercifully, due to love and expertise, I pulled through.

Covid-19 may be here for a long time.

Go get yourself stressed all the time and the common cold becomes more common.

My immune system just really struggled with the medicine after the appendix and I kept on getting ill. People said I was injured but I was never injured.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

History is an angel being blown backwards into the future