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“What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.”

Ifs Way Suffering Wish Perfect Needed Moon Equal Disease Errors Bread Intensity Desirable Not Being Perfect

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”

People Ifs Wish Hurt Easier Disease Understood Sympathetic Smallpox Measles

Author:Jennifer Niven

“If you're successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you're unsuccessful it's worse than having a skin disease.”

Ifs Jobs Wish Acting Successful Disease Skins Unsuccessful

Author:Marlon Brando

“My whole family, all they talk about is food and disease. And they're competitive with illness: I have a cold. I wish I had a cold! I don't even have sinuses anymore.”

Whole Wish Cold Disease Illness Whole Family Sinuses

Author:Dom Irrera

“When the liver is diseased, the eyesight fails; when the kidneys are diseased, the hearing is adversely affected. The disease is not visible, but its effects are. Therefore, enlightened people, wishing to be free from obvious faults, first get rid of hidden faults.”

People Firsts Wish Failing Effects Disease Faults Obvious Hearing Visible Enlightened Taoism Affected Liver Kidneys Diseased Eyesight

Author:Zicheng Hong

“The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style.”

Persons Long Lasts Young Games Wish Boys Saws Style Amount Mets Disease Died Complexes Treatment Massive Conventions Fortitude Discworld Assassins

Author:Terry Pratchett

“We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.”

Men World Should Hard Fall Wish Poverty Ignorance Disease Rain Hunger Burden Nuclear Catastrophe

Author:Haile Selassie

“If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would have to live with the muscular dystrophy disease or any disease. And the second one would be world peace, that we just stop fighting, talk about things, and we could live in harmony once again, like God intended us to do.”

Ifs World Two Would Be Fighting Asks Wish Magic Disease Harmony Extras Genies Muscular Dystrophy

Author:Mattie Stepanek

“Love is a disease no one wants to get rid of. Those who catch it never try to get better, and those who suffer do not wish to be cured.”

Want Trying Suffering Wish Love Is Disease Get Better Zahir

Author:Paulo Coelho

“It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life than to rebel against those who have no other wish than to avoid disease. Moreover, a policy of laissez faire in this sphere is not only cruelty to the individual guiltless victims but also to the nation as a whole... If the Churches were to declare themselves ready to take over the treatment and care of those suffering from hereditary diseases, we should be quite ready to refrain from sterilizing them.”

Source: The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes

“There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.”

Men Should Trying Form Religion Wish Understanding Secret Atheism Danger Disease Curiosity Temptation

Author:Saint Augustine

“I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer, is no study made of those who are free from cancer? Why not inquire what foods they eat, what habits of body and mind they cultivate?”