125 Incurable Quotes

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Famous Incurable Quotes

Life is an incurable disease. — Abraham Cowley

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope. - Mahmoud Darwish

We suffer from an incurable malady: Hope. — Mahmoud Darwish

Society is a hospital of incurables. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else. — Aristotle

Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable. — Hippocrates

There is no cure for the things that will happen or the person that will die. — Turkish Proverbs

An idiot can't be cured of idiocy unless they die. — Japanese Proverbs

An untreatable diagnosis is a statement about the medical system, not the patient. — Barbara Brennan

It is hard to cure madness that originates in the family. — African Proverbs

What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for. — Proverbs

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge. — Avicenna

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure. — Jane Austen

Love has no cure, but it’s the cure for all evils. — Mexican Proverbs

Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope. — Ogden Nash

A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy. — Guy Fawkes

Short Incurable Quotes

  • Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. — Euripides
  • My soul comes from better worlds and I have an incurable homesickness of the stars. — Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness. — Vladimir Nabokov
  • Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments — Confucius
  • We once thought of cancer as an incurable disease; then we started treating it. — David Sinclair
  • Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. — Joaquin Setanti
  • Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. — Immanuel Kant
  • If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will. — Confucius
  • There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain. — Plautus
  • There is no such thing as an incurable disease, only incurable people. — Bernie Siegel
Incurable quote You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?

Incurable Romantic Quotes

I'm an incurable romantic. The essence of romance is an unshakable conviction that next time will be different. — Glen Cook

I'm an incurable romantic, and 'Casablanca''s one of the most romantic pictures I've ever seen - the combination of Bogart and Bergman is just magical. — Ken Adam

I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody — Brian May

My dear fellow," he continued more soberly, "If you have managed to complicate things by forming a sentimental attachment in less than a week, then I doubt there is anything I can do for you. You, sir, are a romantic, and I suspect your condition is incurable. — Frances Hardinge

You, sir, are a romantic, and I'm afraid the condition is incurable. -Eponymous Clent — Frances Hardinge

When There Is No Value Quotes

There is no way anything of value can be done without some framework. It might well be that the framework is discarded or the rules opposed; that is not important. What is essential is that they exist so that one knows when one is in opposition to them. — Margot Fonteyn

Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that, unlike the body, when it comes to training the mind, there is no limit to how far we can go. — Dalai Lama

There is no situation that could ever confront you that cannot be solved. Life takes on real meaning when you set values for yourself, regard yourself as worthwhile and elevate your thoughts to things that are of God-good. There is a Higher Power. Turn to it and use it; it is yours for the asking. — Bryan Adams

We aren't bodies at all; who we are is the love inside us, and it is that love alone that determines our value. When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness. — Marianne Williamson

A different species a different set of values a world completely unlike your own. There is a feeling you can only get when you meet the unknown and open your mind. - Nakajima (Gin no Saji) — Hiromu Arakawa

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically. — John Currin

We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value. — Jonathan Sacks

There is no solution or perfect model you can follow. The best thing I can say is you've got to get close to what you really value. When you strip away your role as a parent, as a mother, and as an executive, what really makes your heart sing? How can you make your mark? — Maureen Chiquet

And it is a quiet terrible thing, too, to discover the value of love this way [after loss] - when the object of love is no longer there, when love dies or goes away or changes. When it is too late. — Vera Nazarian

Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. — Neal Cassady

I Can't Be Fixed Quotes

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president. — Kurt Vonnegut

The Young Man came to the Old Man seeking counsel. I broke something, Old Man. How badly is it broken? It's in a million little pieces. I'm afraid I can't help you. Why? There's nothing you can do. Why? It can't be fixed. Why? It's broken beyond repair. It's in a million little pieces. — James Frey

I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny. — Coco Chanel

After the years of me trying to figure out what I wanted to do with myself, I knew I had to go back and fix some things. I can't just be super-rich or whatever and not do the right thing. — Fetty Wap

Who is this vague "they" we blame for so many of our problems? "They" is the obscure party we use as our whipping boy to camouflage the fact that we - you and I and other specific human beings just like us - have to start doing things differently. "They" can't fix anything. We can. — Sayings

If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix. — Olga Kurylenko

I can take this real world and superimpose upon it the world of illusion (which isn't, really), in order to either fix or prevent many of life's difficulties--or even better, create happiness and well-being for both myself and others. I can do this, and so can you ... if you really want to. — Silver RavenWolf

I'm afraid of time... I mean, I'm afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I'm afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can't fix them without time. I'm afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies. — Ann Brashares

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt. — Elizabeth Peyton

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something badly, and no one else can fix it for me. — Margaret Haddix

Incurring Quotes

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Jan Morris prefers this for himself.Frederick Douglass

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

If to be feelingly alive to the sufferings of my fellow-creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large. — William Wilberforce

It is a mournful fact that most men, and indeed all men of worldly character, have so much regard to public opinion that they dare not act according to the dictates of their consciences when acting thus would incur the popular frown. — Charles Grandison Finney

It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind or brain-damaged baby (even ten years later when she may be happily married). — Phyllis Schlafly

The toughest opponent of all is Old Man Par. He's a patient soul who never shoots a birdie and never incurs a bogey. And if you would travel the long road with him, you must be patient, too. — Bobby Jones

May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family. — Zachary Taylor

I am blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with an incurably restless spirit and the ability to work hard. — Salvatore Ferragamo

For a warrior, nothing is higher than a war against evil. The warrior confronted with such a war should be pleased, Arjuna, for it comes as an open gate to heaven. But if you do not participate in this battle against evil, you will incur sin, violating your dharma and your honor. — Swami Vivekananda

If you have a goal in life that takes a lot of energy, that requires a lot of work, that incurs a great deal of interest and that is a challenge to you, you will always look forward to waking up to see what the new day brings. — Susan Polis Schutz

Incurable Disease Quotes

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy. — Georges Rouault

For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one’s predicament into a human achievement. — Viktor E. Frankl

We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end. — Andrew Greeley

In the beginning, when I first found out I had a disease that was incurable, emotionally I had to get used to the idea of being sick before I could think about making any other major decisions in my life. — Karen Duffy

My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly an incurable disease involving flaking skin. — Bill Bryson

I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable. — William Shakespeare

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods. — Robert Collier

Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this date, is incurable. — Farrah Fawcett

Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business. — George Harrison

Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease. — Monica Dickens

Incorrigible Quotes

If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. — Albert Einstein

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. — John Updike

If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell. — Friedrich Nietzsche

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. — A.E. Housman

Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols -- it is all that they ask; the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them. — William Hazlitt

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do. — Joe Satriani

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning. — A. E. Housman

There may be some incorrigible human beings who cannot be changed except by God's own mercy to that one person. — Warren E. Burger

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More Incurable Quotes

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf. — William James

I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books, and persons, too long. — Margot Asquith

The CARE bill is an important piece of patient-care legislation. It will improve the quality of radiologic procedures performed throughout the United States as well as assist in reducing the cost incurred by the Federal government for these procedures. — Charles W. Pickering

Political correctness is akin to antibiotics: use it frivolously for everything & you'll breed your own custom tailored incurable nightmare. — Eric Weinstein

Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such; no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise. — Hannah Arendt

Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable. — Gorgias

Thought changes structure... I saw people rewire their brains with their thoughts, to cure previously incurable obsessions and trauma. — Norman Doidge

It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus. — John F. Kennedy

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment. — Kenneth E. Boulding

Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt. — John Calvin

You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. — Robert Collier

Allow a government to decline paying its debts and you overthrow all public morality-you unhinge all the principles that preserve the limits of free constitutions. Nothing can more affect national prosperity than a constant and systematic attention to extinguish the present debt and to avoid as much as possibly the incurring of any new debt. — Alexander Hamilton

What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind. — Victor Hugo

...we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what is good? Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness? — John of Damascus

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