Convalescence Quotes

• I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Get Well Soon, Health, Sickness

  Back to Methuselah Pt II

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• For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Loss, Exercise, Voice

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• A vacant white room with lights is still a submission to the neutral. Works of art seen in such spaces seem to be going through a kind of esthetic convalescence.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, White, Space

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.154, Univ of California Press

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• 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

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• For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his life. What these convalescent eyes saw, his most casual speech would reveal.

  Aldous Huxley

  Eye, Speech, Saws

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• 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

  W. H. Auden

  Art, Nature, Get Well

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• One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

  Georg Groddeck

  Cancer, Healing, Health

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• Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.

  Margaret Prescott Montague

  Eye, Enabling, Illness

  Margaret Prescott Montague (1917). “Twenty Minutes of Reality: An Experience, with Some Illuminating Letters Concerning it”

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• Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than you.

  Anais Nin

  Lying, Animal, Stronger

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• The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Tasks, Attention, Recuperation

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• Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.

  John Piper

  Doctors, Medicine, Nurse

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• But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Weak, Refuse, Ifs

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.553, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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