{"quotes":[{"text":"She wished she had cancer instead. She'd trade Alzheimer's for cancer in a heartbeat. She felt ashamed for wishing this, and it was certainly a pointless bargaining, but she permitted herself the fantasy anyway. With cancer, she'd have something to fight. There was surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. There was the chance that she could win. Her family and the community at Harvard would rally behind her battle and consider it noble. And even if it defeated her in the end, she'd be able to look them knowingly in the eye and say good-bye before she left.","author":"Lisa Genova","tags":["alzheimer-s-disease","bargaining","cancer","coping-mechanisms","disease"],"id":121,"author_id":"Lisa+Genova"},{"text":"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.","author":"Hosea Ballou","tags":["medical","disease","outraged "],"id":863,"author_id":"Hosea+Ballou"},{"text":"Doubt is a disease that infects the mind creating a mistrust of peoples motives and ones own perceptions. Doubt has the ability to call into questions everything you ever believed about someone and reinforce the darkest suspicions of our inner circle.","author":"Emily Thorne","tags":["dark","disease","doubt","mistrust","perceptions","revenge","revenge-tv-series","suspicions"],"id":2732,"author_id":"Emily+Thorne"},{"text":"I know inside that there is more to life than this mortal coil. It's a very shallow minded person who thinks that someone is born and dies and that's it. I haven't gone through thirty odd years of suffering, and doing what I do, and looking at other people who are born and die with cancer, with AIDS, with whatever, and think, 'well, what was the point of that?'. There is a point to everything, and we're here to learn, and it's just a learning curve and we'll move on, and this is just a shell. It's just I've got a dodgy shell.","author":"Jonny Kennedy","tags":["acceptance","death","disease"],"id":5362,"author_id":"Jonny+Kennedy"},{"text":"They are very good odds. And I know that my scientific brain believes them, if not my panic-ridden, maternal one. Those odds should have made a difference to my reaction. I should have been able to take the diagnosis calmly, intelligently, reflectively. But that would be to assign rationality to this phenomenon. The trouble with abject fear - with searing, lurid metaphor - is that it is not rational. And the myths that spring out of fear that deep are certainly not. They are the stuff of nightmares. They are tenacious.","author":"Alanna Mitchell","tags":["disease","fear","irrationality","metaphor","science"],"id":11745,"author_id":"Alanna+Mitchell"},{"text":"I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.","author":"Isaac Marion","tags":["civilization","collapse","dead","death","disease","end","ending","extinction","important","life","living","plague","ponder","question","rotten","war","wonder","world"],"id":12889,"author_id":"Isaac+Marion"},{"text":"Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.","author":"Craig Ferguson","tags":["alcoholism","disease","pathology","recovery","rehab"],"id":14937,"author_id":"Craig+Ferguson"},{"text":"Isolation is at the heart of all disease, therefore healing requires community and the support of others.","author":"Sharon Weil","tags":["be-the-change","community","disease","heal","healed","healing","isolation","others","support","supporting-others"],"id":17271,"author_id":"Sharon+Weil"},{"text":"After you find out all the things that can go wrong, you life becomes less about living and more about waiting. For cancer. For dementia. Every look in a mirror, you scan for the red rash that means shingles. See also: Ringworm. See also: Lyme disease, meningitis, rheumatic fever, syphilis.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["disease","life","waiting"],"id":18825,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"The human has genetic adaptation to natural electromagnetic radiation. Increasing, reducing or removing the natural radiation exposures results in a sickened human that may progress onto a diseased state.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["adaptability","adaptation","disease","diseased","diseases","electromagnetic","electromagnetic-radiation","electromagnetic-theory-of-light","electromagnetic-wave","exposure","exposures","genetic","genetic-mutation","genetically-damaged","genetics","human","increasing","natural","natural-selection","progress","progression","progressive","radiation","radiation-effects","reducing","removing","result","results","results","sick","sickened","sickly","sickness","sickness-and-diseases","sickness-of-the-mind","state"],"id":20405,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":236,"pages":24,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}