Quotes About Hospitalization

#1. Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it

Thomas Szasz

#2. How you get from an unanticipated football hand-off to potential hospitalization, I have no idea.

Greg Sestero

#3. I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.

Tammy Baldwin

#4. I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that could lead to hospitalization and the young are extremely vulnerable.

Tia Mowry

#5. Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options.

Thomas R. Insel

#6. In this most powerful nation in the world, lack of access to health care should not force local and state governments, companies and workers into bankruptcy, while causing unnecessary illness and hospitalization.

John Conyers

#7. When Medicare was first enacted in 1965, it provided coverage for hospitalization, doctor visits and surgeries, but there was no coverage for prescription medications.

Michael Burgess

#8. What Cathy took from her rejection experience was self-doubt. Until this current traumatic hospitalization, Cathy hadn't realized the fear she was carrying around, how burdened she was by it, and how that fear kept her in a mode where she had to continuously prove her value to others and herself.

Robert Kegan

#9. And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.

Fernando Pessoa

#10. He wished he had feelings for Andi, wanted to be interested in her ... But there were 10 quick reasons why he wasn't interested. The biggest: Bailey Flanigan. He could hear her laugh from across the room. He sighed, and it felt like it came from the basement of his soul.

Karen Kingsbury

#11. Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.

Tibor Fischer

#12. I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.

Nancy Reagan

#13. One loves art more than life; it's better than life, don't you think, Ali? It doesn't disappoint so," she sighed. "It's not so frightening," she said, her eyes filled with terror.

Carole Maso

#14. I don't know any saint who wanted to be the patron saint of kissing.

Lino Rulli

#15. I found it fascinating that there could be so many realities. There was the truth, which was the world we lived. There was also the worlds we would create for ourselves in our minds. In truth, there are countless universes and realities hiding within all of mankind.

Melissa C. Water

#16. The next morning, Angie woke with the sun ... Her eyes felt gritty and swollen.
Once again she'd watered her mattress with memories.

Kristin Hannah

#17. Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea till the weary very means do ebb?

William Shakespeare

#18. The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

Stevie Smith

#19. A few shackles and bars and this place'd be forced to call itself a prison!

Jennifer Anne Kogler

#20. I tried to figure out whether it was day or night: if it was day I had a shot at going home, but in the hospital there was no day or night.
Only shifts.
Only waiting.

Joan Didion

#21. You must learn to honor and cherish and love your Self. You must first see your Self as worthy before you can see another as worthy. You must first know your Self to be holy before you can acknowledge holiness in another.

Neale Donald Walsch

#22. When I was reading books for 'Seesaw Girl,' I came across several references to the fact that in the 11th and 12th centuries, Korean pottery was considered the finest in the world. I liked that - the idea of a little tiny country being the best at something.

Linda Sue Park

#23. The reason I suggest that one speaks of a false-self system is that the 'personality', false self, mask, 'front', or persona that such individuals wear may consist in an amalgam of various part-selves, none of which is so fully developed as to have a comprehensive 'personality' of its own.

R.D. Laing

#24. Only with a clear mind will you be able to see who is truly in your heart.

CLAMP

#25. When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot - we take leave of our sense.

Annie Dillard

#26. Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

Andre Benjamin