Chronic Disease

Famous quotes containing the words chronic disease, chronic and/or disease:

    “That’s the whole story of my life: frustration. It’s a chronic disease, and it’s incurable.”
    —Robert E. Sherwood (1896–1955)

    “Adder-faced singularity
    Espouses a nailed-up childhood,
    Skin-disease pardons
    Soft horror of living,
    A gabble is forgiven
    By chronic solitude.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,—let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.”
    —Sarah Josepha Buell Hale 1788–1879, U.S. novelist, poet and women’s magazine editor. American Ladies Magazine, pp. 36-40 (December 1828)