Illness Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

“His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was dieased”

— Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Zach Anner

I was so afraid to feel free to enjoy my own life if my mother was sick and suffering everyday of her's. I didn't…

— Gene Wilder

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

— Daniel Day-Lewis

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

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

Being diagnosed with a possibly life-threatening disease is so jarring and for me to know that God had me in his hands, I never…

— Sheryl Crow

In the summer of 1956, my mother was pregnant with me, which caused my father to confess his fear that I was going to…

— David Shields

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.

— Frank McCourt

“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

I’d always been afraid of sick people, and so had my mother. It wasn’t that we feared catching their brain aneurysm or accidentally ripping…

— David Sedaris

When I became ill, I started to experience what my patients had suffered under my care.

— Kent Brantly