Famous quotes containing the words disease and/or risk:
“And this disease that was Swanns love had so multiplied, it was so intimately tied to all of Swanns habits, to all his acts, to his thoughts, to his health, to his sleep, to his life, even to what he desired for his afterlife, his love was so much a part of him that it could not be extracted from him without destroying him entirely: as is said in surgery, his love was inoperable.”
—Marcel Proust (18711922)
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything its cracked up to be. Thats why people are so cynical about it.... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you dont risk anything, you risk even more.”
—Erica Jong (b. 1942)