Quotes for All
Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?… what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?… If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. Epictetus
I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death… I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals. Emma Thompson
When I write \”paradise\” I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes – disease and death and the rotting of flesh. Edward Abbey
Even the rich aren’t often happy. Their wealth is at best only a temporary distraction. It doesn’t make them immune to emotional and mental suffering, or to disease and death. They too must deal with loneliness, the deaths of loved ones and the frustrations and boredom of old age. Frederick Lenz
The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an hour they swallow in three minutes gulping down their food like the [dog] under the table which when a chunk of meat is thrown down to it swallows it before … Read more
The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God’s loving presence and power in our midst are even more real. Brennan Manning
But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev’ry death its own avenger breeds. Alexander Pope
How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?
Rachel Carson
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
Rumi