Disease Quote by Max Ehrmann

When my disease nearly destroyed me in 2009, my doctors thought I'd be lucky to regain 80 percent of my cognitive abilities. When I…

— Susannah Cahalan

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

I had liver disease. I'm completely cured now, but I thought about if I died from liver cancer, what my life would look like.…

— Min Jin Lee

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

— Kent Brantly

I was a very sickly kid and suffered from chronic pneumonia, which is why we moved to the warm southern climate. I think being…

— Kate DiCamillo

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 make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it,…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Robert Schwentke

I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to become a…

— Evie Wyld

Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.

— Maria Edgeworth

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to…

— Sylvia Plath

There were times where I felt I was pressing a little bit too hard with the humor, and I had to pull back, because…

— Joshua Ferris