Bed Bound Patient Quotes & Sayings

As a writer, I have always considered it my job to describe the world as I know it; to struggle toward whatever portion of the truth is available to me, — Theresa Rebeck

Fire
Fire In The Heavens

Fire in the heavens, and fire along the hills,
and fire made solid in the flinty stone,
thick-mass'd or scatter'd pebble, fire that fills
the breathless hour that lives in fire alone.

This valley, long ago the patient bed
of floods that carv'd its antient amplitude,
in stillness of the Egyptian crypt outspread,
endures to drown in noon-day's tyrant mood.

Behind the veil of burning silence bound,
vast life's innumerous busy littleness
is hush'd in vague-conjectured blur of sound
that dulls the brain with slumbrous weight, unless

some dazzling puncture let the stridence throng
in the cicada's torture-point of song. — Christopher John Brennan

In meditation what you are trying to do is simply get rid of your own junk. You are trying to move all the confusion out of your mind, all the heaviness, all the emotional upsets, all the impressions that you have picked up since your last meditation. — Frederick Lenz

Elphaba's already come back. I saw her last week on the stairs. — Gregory Maguire

I remember something my mother used to say. The Devil can quote scripture — Stephen King

If mercy is needed to be exercised towards our pious duties - what shall be said of our sins! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You've seen what," Emilio conceded, "but not why! That's where God is, Anne. In the why of it - in the meaning. — Mary Doria Russell

Death is not a memory you can fake. — Jessica Brody

Well, if ifs and nuts were candy and nuts, then we'd all have a Merry Christmas. (Serenity) — Kinley MacGregor

To hurt is as human as to breathe. — J.K. Rowling

In a universe filled with billions of stars, the universe morns the death of each and every one and marks it with a dark hole that can never be replace; so where are you are and whomever you maybe, your place is unique and can never be replaced until the end of days, your value is for every true, however great or small it may seem... — Marcus L. Lukusa

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher

Argument is the worst sort of conversation. — Jonathan Swift

Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly. — Edward Abbey