Quotes About Sickbed

The king's visit to Coligny's sickbed

Slowly over my consciousness of the sickbed and the humid room there dropped the dark veil of Heaven. Spread out in all directions were the sentinel stars, splendid as they shone above the glinting towers of the glass city, and in this half-sleep, now aided by the most tranquil and blissful illusions, the stars sang to me.

As Søren Kierkegaard says in the opening pages of The Sickness unto Death (the sickness in question is despair): "Everything essentially Christian must have in its presentation a resemblance to the way a physician speaks at the sickbed.

Oh my God! You're wearing your bowling shoes! Only you would wear bowling shoes to your child's sickbed.

Victory in life is like starting a journey on a sickbed, it takes courage and endurance of the inner man to prevail over fear and circumstances regardless.

The quirky little melodrama that unfolded in Bosnia on 28 June 1914 played the same role in the history of the world as might a wasp sting on a chronically ailing man who is maddened into abandoning a sickbed to devote his waning days to destroying the nest

The world felt rude and fragile and new as though she had lately risen from her sickbed.