malady quotes

Life is a malady whose one medicine is Death.

-Abu'l-'Ala   Al-Ma'arri
c.1000  Luzu'  miyya'  t, stanza 41 (translated by R  A Nicholson in Studies in Islamic Poetry,1921).

But love's a malady without a cure.

-John Dryden
  Palamon and  Arcite, bk.2, l.110.