Convalescence Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.