Best disease & literature Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”

Firsts Literature Disease Comparison Sexually

Author:Neil Gaiman

“The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.”

Book Literature Interesting Healthy Disease

Author:T. E. Lawrence

“Dogma, static positions, consonance - all these are obstacles to catching the disease of art, at least in its more complex forms.”

Inspirational Art Form Literature Position Disease Complexes Obstacles Dogma Catching Static Consonance

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“We divert our attention from disease and death as much as we can; the slaughterhouses are huddled out of sight and never mentioned, so that the world we recognize officially in literature and in society is a poetic fiction far handsomer, cleaner and better than the world that really is.”

World Literature Attention Fiction Disease Sight Poetic Cleaners Slaughterhouses Disease And Death

Book:Writings, 1902-1910

Source: Writings, 1902-1910

“Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.”

Literature Virtue Stage Morality Disease Primaries Boredom Syphilis

Author:Karl Kraus

“One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.”

People Two Literature Sides Disease Owners Two Sides Hideous Ghastly

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.”

Should Government Literature Perfect Effort Progress Disease Respect Research Spread Federal Government Tomatoes

Author:Andy Rooney

“No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.”

Done Literature Disease Photography Representation Pictorial

Book:Complete Works of John Ruskin

Source: Complete Works of John Ruskin

“For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.”

Heart Suffering Hate Literature Vision Seeing Sorrow Disease Hatred Burden Poison

Author:Aeschylus

“The medical literature tells us that the most effective ways to reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, diabetes, Alzheimer's, and many more problems are through healthy diet and exercise. Our bodies have evolved to move, yet we now use the energy in oil instead of muscles to do our work.”

“We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.”

Has Beens Literature Names Disease Fancy Aesthetic Organs Indulge Hyper Indulge Yourself

Book:Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.”

Reality Literature Disease Substitutes Phantoms

Book:Orlando (Annotated): A Biography

Source: Orlando (Annotated): A Biography

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”

Literature Childhood Disease

Author:Jane Yolen

“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone.”

Sometimes Night Literature Disease Late Alcohol Telephones Involving Slaughterhouse Five Slaughterhouse 5 Slaughter House 5 Slaughter House Five Mustard Gas

Book:Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

“And what is literature, Rabo," he said, "but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'.”

Said Universe Literature Disease Importance Affair Molecules Insiders Newsletters

Book:Bluebeard: A Novel

Source: Bluebeard: A Novel

“Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.”

Writing Literature Disease Artistic Temperament Artistic Temperament

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.”

Ifs Men God Literature Animal Divine Disease Dust Exception God Image

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.”

Men Way Has Beens Sometimes Seems Literature Quality Disease Lonely Longing Hunger New Ways Unrest Wanderers Foreign Places

Book:Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings

Source: Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings

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