Mother Quote by Kurt Vonnegut

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

“My illness, I well knew, had been entirely brought on by myself by such negligence of my own health, as I had felt even…

— Jane Austen

“Sickness burrowed deep inside you, and even if you were cured, even if you could be cured, you would never forget how it felt…

— Brit Bennett

“He cherished all those he treated, even the ones made mean by their sickness, even the ones he knew had been mean before they’d…

— Noah Gordon

“He chose illness, because he knew of no other way to be seen. Not even by those looking at him.”

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“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

“He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience.”

— Jane Austen

“Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me. A mother, after all, is…

— Meghan O'Rourke

“I had spent the last two weeks consumed with my mother’s condition, at her side for many hours every day, living in a soup…

— Jane Gross

“It hadn't occurred to me that my mother would die. Until she was dying, the thought had never entered my mind. She was monolithic…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Tell my mother I stopped feeling frightened once I told myself they couldn't inflict half as much pain on me as she suffered when…

— Rolf Hochhuth

“You did yourself ill to feel well of those to whom ill must eventually be done.”

— Stephen King