“I never have held death in contempt, though in the course of my explorations I have oftentimes felt that to meet one's fate on a noble mountain, or in the heart of a glacier, would be blessed as compared with death from disease, or from some shabby lowland accident. But the best death, quick and crystal-pure, set so glaringly open before us, is hard enough to face, even though we feel gratefully sure that we have already had happiness enough for a dozen lives.” LifeFeelsHeartHardEnoughWould BeFacesCoursesFeltFateDyingGratitudePureMountainDiseaseBlessedAccidentsNobleExplorationContemptDozenCrystalsBeing BlessedGlaciersShabby Book:John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings Source: John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings
“Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.” IfsEnoughFeltMysteryDiseaseIllnessTreatedContagious Author:Susan Sontag
“When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked.” PeopleTryingFeltMoralHappenedDiseaseAidsObligationBrokeStemNerdVirusesEpidemicsMoral ObligationAids Epidemic Author:Morgan Fairchild
“I saw a video on YouTube of a girl who had very similar reactions to late-stage Lyme disease as I did. And I thought it was crazy. And when I saw her basically have a seizure on camera that looked very much like my seizure I felt, "Oh my god. That's me." And so it was really important to me, and I said to Sini, 'We have to find some way to not just talk about Lyme disease, but to show it.” WaySaidImportantShowsGirlFeltSawsCrazyStageDiseaseLateCamerasReactionsVideoYoutubeSeizures Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never felt alone.” KnowsHandsFeltDiseaseThreatening Author:Sheryl Crow
“I've said that, that I've felt like as Christians and particularly even as Republicans, we needed to address issues that touched the broader perspective, and that included disease, hunger, poverty, homelessness, the environment.” SaidChristianFeltPovertyIssuesEnvironmentPerspectiveNeededRepublicanDiseaseHungerAddressesTouchedHomelessnessHunger Poverty Author:Mike Huckabee
“Outgrew the media... The negativity felt like a disease.” FeltMediaDiseaseNegativity Author:Billy Connolly
“I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would understand in a palpable way that addiction is a disease that tells the afflicted, despite years or even decades of heartbreaking evidence to the contrary, that using will make things better.” PeopleIfsWayYearsMightFeltAudienceStruggleDiseaseUnderstoodEvidenceAddictionDecadesContraryRecoveryDespiteHeartbreakingStigma Author:Brian Lindstrom
“What happened in the 80's was that all the men died of AIDS. That was a particularly depressing time because so many people passed away and it was a very desperate and lonely time, so I think a lot of people felt that we were somehow, unreceived. Not only by the disease but also by the public image of the disease. It really gave homophobia a real shot in the arm and changed the way people viewed gays, queers. It became an entirely different atmosphere.” PeopleThinkingMenWayDifferentRealFeltHappenedChangedHe ManArmsGayDiseaseShotsLonelyDiedAidsAtmosphereDesperateDepressingHomophobiaPassed AwayPublic Image Author:Margaret Cho
“In fact, we would know ourselves that we are not meant to be meat eaters, and we would not have allowed ourselves to become conditioned to meat eating in the first place, if the effects of meat eating were felt right away. But since heart disease, cancer, diabetes, osteoporosis, etc. usually take many years to develop, we are able to separate them from their cause (or contributing factors) and go on happily eating an animal-based diet.” IfsKnowsYearsFirstsHeartFactsAbleFeltCausesAnimalEffectsGoes OnDiseaseEatingCancerFactorsMeatDietsEtcMeant To BeContributingDiabetesHeart DiseaseMeat EatingOsteoporosis Author:Sharon Gannon
“The Internet, you know, 10 or 15 years ago sort of felt like the wild West. You could go out there and do anything and search for things, and, you know, find out about stuff. Now always in the back of my mind, you know, whether it's email or whatever else, it's like, well, is this going to show up somewhere? Is someone going to keep track of this and, you know, know I was searching for - maybe it's an embarrassing disease, maybe it's a weird hobby?” KnowsYearsMindWellsShowsFeltStuffInternetDiseaseYears AgoWestTrackHobbiesEmbarrassingEmailOf My MindWild West Author:Tim Wu
“Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in every weeknight in the hope that he might get free and call me. It felt like I had a disease I didn't want to get rid of. I suppose that's a definition of obsession, yes.” ThinkingKnowsWantMeanMightUsedFeltDiseaseDefinitionsObsessionObsessedCall Me Book:Mapping the Edge: A Novel Source: Mapping the Edge: A Novel
“Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene - in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses.” FeltDiseaseOriginalsPatientIllCancerSentencesSensesLiedBreast CancerObsceneCancer PatientsDeath Sentence Book:Illness as metaphor Source: Illness as metaphor