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Quotes About Hospital

about a year after that, I was invited to go to a mental hospital. And, you know, you don't want to be rude, so you go.
~ Carrie Fisher
It's sort of like an invitation to the White House—only you meet a better class of people in the mental hospital.
~ Carrie Fisher
I was invited to go to a mental hospital. And you know, you don't want to be rude, so you go.
~ Carrie Fisher
Claire took Owen to get his cast taken
~ Carrie Mac
The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would prefer to suffer near the fire, and another is certain he would get well if he were by the window.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Peabody: "When a guy's in the hospital, he wants toys." Eve: "When a guy gets a splinter in his toe, he wants toys.
~ J.D. Robb
When my mother was dying in hospital, he thought, when she knew her end was coming, it was not me she looked to but someone who stood behind me: her mother or the ghost of her mother. To me she was a woman but to herself she was still a child calling to her mother to hold her and help her. And her own mother, in the secret life we do not see, was a child too. I come from a line of children without end.
~ J.M. Coetzee
but a hospital, it seemed, was a place for bodies, where bodies asserted their rights.
~ J.M. Coetzee
When my mother was dying in hospital, he thought, when she knew her end was coming, it was not me she looked to but someone who stood behind me: her mother or the ghost of her mother. To me she was a woman but to herself she was still a child calling to her mother to hold her hand and help her. And her own mother, in the secret life we do not see, was a child too. I come from a line of children without end.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Well...he's back in an exam room. Should I get out a quarter? Everybody groaned. There was only one He out of the legions of male patients they treated, and coin bingo was typically how the staff decided who had to deal with him.
~ J.R. Ward
Fritz, the doggen butler, presented him with a barf bag at exactly the right moment. A barf bag. A hospital-grade, bright-green barf bag. As
~ J.R. Ward
As he got off the bus, the butler escorted him over to the reinforced steel door, their footfalls echoing throughout the multi-layered concrete parking area. And then they were inside, proceeding down the long, wide corridor. When Peyton stopped in front of the closed door to Novo's hospital room, Fritz bowed low and kept on going to his next duty
~ J.R. Ward
Whatever, sure, on the surface, Novo had taken his vein, and that hadn't been the first time a female had done that to him. And hello, she was in a hospital bed, hooked up to machines. The experience, though? The feel of her lips on the skin of his wrist, the subtle pulls, the lick of her tongue when she was finished? Fuck his drug addiction. Give him a lifetime of that and he was never going to need another line of coke again.
~ J.R. Ward
In the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, there were many gay men who were unable to come out about the fact that their lovers were ill, A, and then dead, B. They were unable to get access to the hospital to see their lover, unable to call their parents and say, 'I have just lost the love of my life.'
~ Judith Butler
The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.
~ Dikembe Mutombo
There is no day or night in a hospital, there is only now.
~ T. Greenwood
Zoe to move along. In the bathroom, she snatched a bottle of 600 ml. Ibuprofen—given to her at the hospital. She didn't need it, but it had her name on it, and while nearly everything she owned would inevitably be left behind, the bottle was her prescription with her name on it. It had to go. She dumped
~ Tanya Anne Crosby
It was a face that said, "Fuck the world," but said it reluctantly, and tonelessly, and then apologized, said "Sorry," but said all of this so shyly that no one heard, anyway, except for himself. A year ago, Uncle Larry went to the hospital with the flu, somehow fell into a coma, and, a few days later, died.
~ Tao Lin
I would rather spend one day on Maui than 30 days in the hospital.
~ Charles Lindbergh
Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.
~ Jo Brand
Doctors and nurses seemed to have been born and raised in the hospital, with only short punctuations of absenteeism for such things as schooling and marriage.
~ Marjorie Kellogg
I spent some time at White Memorial Medical Center as a senior medical student doing a rotation in surgery; however, I felt I wasn't getting enough time assisting.
~ Samuel Wilson
And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.
~ William Ernest Henley