Quotes

Healthy people are invalids who don't know it. ~Jules Romains, Dr. Knock, 1923

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. ~Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

Mens sana in corpore sano. (Your prayer must be for a sound mind in a sound body. ~Juvenal

Name me no names for my disease,
With uninforming breath;
I tell you I am none of these,
But homesick unto death.
~Witter Bynner, "The Patient to the Doctors"

My soul is full of whispered song;
My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
Are all alive with light.~Alice Cary, Dying Hymn

Even hundredfold grief is divisible by love. ~Jareb Teague

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

To die and part is a less evil; but to part and live, there, there is the torment. ~George Lansdowne

She went her unremembering way,She went and left in meThe pang of all the partings gone,And partings yet to be.~Francis Thompson

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death. ~Anna Brownell Jameson

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven. ~Tryon Edwards

Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation, as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts. ~Florence Nightingale