Able Quote by Rae Morris

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

— Stephen King

Illness played a great - and unwelcome - role in my early life. Mumps were soon followed by a raging sore throat, and it…

— Roger Moore

Well I was an asthmatic child. So that for most of my childhood I was in bed. Bedridden.

— Gerald Scarfe

I had a cyst on my tonsils, and I couldn't sing. I had to have an operation.

— R. Kelly

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and…

— John Lydon

I had what would now be called sleep paralysis, from six years old until maybe I was 16.

— Olly Alexander

When I was 13, I remember crying on my mum's shoulder when my first girlfriend dumped me via MSN Messenger. That was cold.

— Conor Maynard

When I was a small child in London in the early 1960s, I had whooping cough. Then, when I was ten, I had a…

— Tony Hadley

I had something in my throat. It felt like I had swallowed the whole world.

— Frida Kahlo

When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.

— Jack Osbourne

When I was 13, I came back from summer camp - summer of '74 - and my mother had had an accident during surgery…

— Andrew Zimmern

I was a bedwetter until I was about 15, and it was humiliating.

— Sarah Silverman