Old age is an incurable disease. [ Seneca ]

Covetousness is generally incurable. [ Proverb ]

Great passions are incurable diseases. [ Goethe ]

The incurable ills are the imaginary ills. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

An incurable itch for writing possesses many. [ Juv ]

Great passions are incurable diseases; the very remedies make them worse. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Hope! hope, you miserable! There is no infinite mourning, no incurable evils, no eternal hell! [ Victor Hugo ]

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. [ Juvenal ]

Great passions are incurable diseases; what might heal them is precisely that which makes them so dangerous. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

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 ]

The finest composition of human nature, as well as the finest china, may have a flaw in it, and this in either case is equally incurable. [ Fielding ]

Lampoons and satires, that are written with wit and spirit, are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable. [ Addison ]

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse - a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable. [ Colton ]