Case Quote by Gail Sheehy

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

— Herodotus

“Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties.”

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.

— Susan Minot

I went through a pretty serious illness early in my life and I made a movie about that.

— Robert Schwentke

I was trying to put myself in the situation of someone that was going through major loss. Losing someone to death or sickness, and…

— Coeur de pirate

My father had a heart attack and he has heart disease. He had a full recovery, and I'm very lucky, but it certainly made…

— Cheryl Hines

Just like medicine anywhere else, I get to walk through life with people in the midst sometimes of their most difficult and challenging circumstances…

— Kent Brantly

There were some medical emergencies at home, be it my wife's brain tumour operation, my father's cancer. Eventually we lost him in 2018.

— Pratik Gandhi

We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“do not only describe your situation, that event, that person, place or that thing. By describing, we limit our thoughts in pondering. We ought…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“if we hope for more significant therapeutic change, we must encourage our patients to assume responsibility—that is, to apprehend how they themselves contribute to…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Writing about my illness put me into places. It was very triggering. I had to completely remove myself and practice self-care. I learned to…

— Jenny Lawson