Dad Quote by Frank McCourt

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father's house.

— Thomas Brooks

“Affliction is not some test that simply exists to build our character. It beats us up. It changes us. It sobers us. It raises…

— Russ Ramsey

“Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.”

— C.S. Lewis

I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.

— Jessye Norman

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Apparently, my parents were not worried about me being sick, because they did not suggest any such thing. My sickness was nothing but a…

— Diana Macey

Once you spend time with [the afflicted], you start recognizing them as individuals, as opposed to lumping them in with everybody else who might…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I was afraid to admit feeling ill because even when I was 4 or 5, I knew that my father viewed sickness as a…

— Caroline Fraser

“I long ago learned that one's illnesses are both pleasanter and more useful if one keeps their exact nature to himself: one's friends, uncertain…

— John Barth

My parents instilled in me a sense of self that I was more than just a diagnosis or a condition.

— Zach Anner

“When you have an invisible disease, your sickness isn’t your biggest problem. What you end up battling more than anything else, every single day,…

— Heidi Cullinan

As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really -…

— Spike Milligan