Charles Lamb Quotes About Sickness

Quotes about: Sickness

• How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself!

  Charles Lamb

  Cancer, Men, Self

  'Last Essays of Elia' (1833) 'The Convalescent'

• How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! Supreme selfishness is inculcated upon him as his only duty.

  Charles Lamb

  Health, Men, Self

  'Last Essays of Elia' (1833) 'The Convalescent'

• How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

  Charles Lamb

  Eye, Men, Space

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund, a Tale”, p.204

• If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

  Charles Lamb

  Sick, Solitude, Bed

  Charles Lamb (1839). “Essays of Elia: To which are Added Letters, and Rosamund”, p.178

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