Sanatorium Quotes

#1. It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is by way of the Chimney. (What did it mean? Soon we were all to learn what it meant.)

Primo Levi

#2. Unless you are rich, and can con vales center in a sanatorium estate (where visitors came down a tiered, oceanside lawn to found you ato your easel) you have to keep going when you're depressed. That means phone calls, appointments errands, holidays, family, friends, and colleagues.

Virginia Heffernan

#3. The sanatorium itself was charming, a group of cabins in the woods, a place for overworked urbanites to feel pleasantly melancholic. A slackertorium.

Keith Gessen

#4. The color scheme of the whole sanatorium seemed to be based on liver. Dark, glowering woodwork, burnt-brown leather chairs, walls that might once have been white but had succumbed under a spreading malady of mod or damp. A mottled brown linoleum sealed off the floor.

Sylvia Plath

#5. The Cross was the place of your spiritual birth; it must ever be the spot for renewing your health, for it is the sanatorium of every sin-sick soul. The blood is the true balm of Gilead; it is the only catholicon [remedy] which heals every spiritual disease.

Charles Spurgeon

#6. Southern California, which is shaped somewhat like a coffin, is a giant sanatorium with flowers where people come to be cured of life itself in whatever way .... This is the last stop before the sun gives up and sinks into the black, black ocean, and night - usually starless here - comes down.

John Rechy

#7. I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. I don't have to work, really, but I do enjoy working, and I do enjoy getting paid.

Michael Caine

#9. In bad weather, I spent hours drawing action figures on paper, coloring them, backing them on cardboard, then cutting them out and creating whole stories around their lives.

Terry Brooks

#10. The language of experiment is more authoritative than any reasoning: facts can destroy our ratiocination - not vice versa.

Alessandro Volta

#11. Diplomacy is also the art of postponing decisions until the problems resolve themselves.

Paulo Coelho

#12. My point is, there is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us. Before

Michael Crichton

#13. They swore at airport management, at the TSA, at the airlines, at their useless phones, furious because fury was the last defense against understanding what the news stations were reporting.

Emily St. John Mandel

#14. I don't want you on the front line because I don't want you being hurt, you insane bitch!

Suzanne Wright