“It's a very lonely illness. You feel like you're the only one in the world who has it.”— Patti Davis
“Alzheimer's is a disease that is a thief. It steals memories, it steals dignity, it steals the person you knew.”— Patti Davis
“I have just returned from the valley of the shadow of death, having been diagnosed as a diabetic. For a man who has lived his life in the fast lane, this is a bit of a bugger.”— Jeffrey Bernard
“The problem with being a manic-depressive is that half of the time you don't know you're manic.”— Jeremy Brett
“The thing about breast cancer is that it's a disease that doesn't just affect the person who has it; it affects the whole family.”— Jill Eikenberry
“Cancer is a disease that is mysterious, headstrong and makes its own rules. And mine, to this point, is incurable.”— Farrah Fawcett
“Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.”— Susan Sontag
“There are many of us who have this illness and we should be reaching out to each other and helping each other.”— Anthony Perkins