Quotes About Convalescence

I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they're convalescing in a Civil War hospital.

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

You must be patient as an invalid and trusting as a convalescent

having been a valetudinarian

But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink, he recovered.

Alex was not the only person I've heard say that being forced to lie in bed with nothing to do for months was the best thing that ever happened to him. In his case, it was TB. He read all the time he was in the sanatorium, and came out looking back with pity on the ignorant youth he had been.

some kind of head injury that took him a decade to recover from.

My father's mother, my Grandmother Young, was said by the family to have talked herself to death. Convalescing from a fever, she had defied the doctors and gone right on talking.

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.

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

My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

For the next two weeks he stayed home while she "convalesced," reading to her and trying to conceal his renewed worries about money.87 The time for their general move to Washington was approaching; how he would finance it he simply did not know.

sin embargo la consigna era ahora ir con cuidado, no duraría mucho, poco más que la convalecencia y las semanas precisas para que nos repusiéramos todos del susto y nos confiáramos, ningún estado de alarma es sostenible.

invariably to me, I know, and to any person who saw her, I should think--refuted more tangible proofs of convalescence, and stamped her as one doomed to decay.

I was feeling well enough to eat the pears.

When he was eventually invalided out of Hong Kong and back to London, Pawson had expected a hero's return. Instead he'd been comprehensively debriefed, reprimanded for his stupidity in falling into Japanese hands and subjected to a barrage of gripes about the length of his convalescence at such an inopportune time. There had been no mention at all of his bravery in the face of torture. It had been a harsh lesson, but one well worth learning.

Emily's convalescence was rather slow. Physically she recovered with normal celerity but a certain spiritual and emotional languor persisted for a time. One cannot go down to the depths of hidden things and scape the penalty

The feeling of pain resembles the anguished, troubled height of convulsions, and suffering-the long and the slow kind-has the intimate yellow which colours the vague bliss of profoundly felt convalescence.

We're convalescents. Most of us are people who never learned an art or a trade, not even the art of enjoying life. Since we're basically averse to prolonged social contact, even the greatest of friends tend to bore us after half an hour; we only long to see them when we think about seeing them, and the best moments we spend with them occur in our dreams.

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

There is nothing more tragic for a man who has been expecting to die than a long convalescence.

No ha sido esa larga enfermedad -mi vida- sino esa larga convalecencia, también mi vida. La revisión liberal-burguesa, la ilusión del perfeccionamiento, el veneno de la esperanza.

Not that long disease, my life, but that long convalescence, my life. The liberal-bourgeois revision, the illusion of improvement, the poison of hope.