19 Movie Quotes about Illness (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 4, 2026

Memorable quotes about illness, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Oh, well, we can't have everything. I should be happy that I still have my sickness.

Quote from Mad Monster Party? (1967)

2 Unfortunately, she kept her illness from me until all I could do was mourn her.

Sean Connery as Henry Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

3 Ah-choo! Ah-choo! It's co-co-cold outside. I might get pneumonia. And die.

Quote from Yogi Bear

4 Since I fell ill a few weeks ago while coming here, I seem to be getting worse, and I'm weakened now. Therefore, I've decided, starting from tomorrow, I'll teach these kids Shaolin Tong-Chi style, so that they're able to protect themselves.

Quote from Shaolin Chastity Kung Fu

5 Hello. Now don't you worry. -We'll soon have you cured. -Leave it all to us. You'll never know what hit you. -Goodbye. -Goodbye.

Graham Chapman; John Cleese in Monty Python's The Meaning of Life

6 We have HIVO, but it's a disease. It's a horrible, horrible disease. -Oh, my.

Jerry Seinfeld as Barry B. Benson in Bee Movie

7 What do you say, Jack? I'm a Jew. I'm divorced. I'm broke. And I'm dying of cancer. Do you think I get a discount?

Debra Winger as Joy Davidman in Shadowlands

8 Oh, a cold, a puny cold! Why don't you get yourself a real female with something decent like pneumonoconiosis, or gall stones? -Well, maybe she could catch something like that.

Quote from The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

9 What's hyperzemia? -It's what Jake's got.

Ken Berry as Frank Wilson in The Cat from Outer Space (1978)

10 I thought I had the flu. I'd still think I had the flu if they weren't telling me otherwise.

James Earl Jones as Admiral James Greer in Clear and Present Danger