I can Quote by Tony Judt

Literature + Illness = Illness

— Roberto Bolano

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

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.

— Virginia Woolf

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that…

— Sholem Asch

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

— John Green

It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under…

— Gene Tierney

I want to destigmatize the words mental illness.

— Linda Hamilton

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

— Anton Chekhov

Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

— Ovid

There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going…

— Abraham Verghese

“Here are some things that diseases don’t make people: • Cool • Poetic • Sexy • Classy • Genius Here is one thing they do make people: • Dead”

— Jennifer Wright

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.

— Marcel Proust