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)

“Only then can the chronic inattention
Of our lives drape itself around us, conciliatory....”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“In a country where misery and want were the foundation of the social structure, famine was periodic, death from starvation common, disease pervasive, thievery normal, and graft and corruption taken for granted, the elimination of these conditions in Communist China is so striking that negative aspects of the new rule fade in relative importance.”
—Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)