Walter Raleigh Quotes

To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray, To come to me: of cureless ills thou art The one physician. Pain lays not its touch Upon a corpse.

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

There's nothing more raw in life than when you're sick.

There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.

It is medicine, not poison, I offer you.

A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.

There are no such things as incurable, there are only things for which man has not found a cure.

Not death but disease is the real enemy; disease, the malign force that requires confrontation. Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost.

Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.

We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.

Time is the great physician.

I can attest to the very real potential for unnecessary pain, suffering, and death when the work of public-health officials is curtailed.

Everyone gets sick, and everyone has to go.

One has to swallow a bitter pill to get cured.