Quotes about Recovery
Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.
— Euripides
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
— George Eliot
Lost time is never found again." ~ Benjamin Franklin
— Terri Savelle Foy
The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
— Henry David Thoreau
my daughter at about six years of age asked me the question, "Why do we speak of the good Lord?" Whereupon I said, "Some weeks ago, you were suffering from measles, and then the good Lord sent you full recovery." However, the little girl was not content; she retorted, "Well, but please, Daddy, do not forget: in the first place, he had sent me the measles.
— Viktor E. Frankl
We had literally lost the ability to feel pleased and had to relearn it slowly. Psychologically, what was happening to the liberated prisoners could be called "depersonalization." Everything appeared unreal, unlikely, as in a dream.
— Viktor E. Frankl
The body after long illness is languid, passive, receptive of sweetness, but too weak to contain it.
— Virginia Woolf
Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
— Charles Dickens
Not to make Joe uneasy by talking too much, even if I had been able to talk much, I deferred asking him about Miss Havisham until next day. He shook his head when I then asked him if she had recovered? 'Is she dead, Joe?' 'Why, you see, old chap,' said Joe, in a tone of remonstrance, and by way of getting at it by degrees, 'I wouldn't go so far as to say that, for that's a deal to say; but she ain't -' 'Living, Joe?' 'That's nigher where it is,' said Joe; 'she ain't living.
— Charles Dickens
I had not been mistaken in my fancy that there was a simple dignity in him. The fashion of his dress could no more come in its way when he spoke these words, than it could come in its way in Heaven. He touched me gently on the forehead, and went out. As soon as I could recover myself sufficiently, I hurried out after him and looked for him in the neighbouring streets, but he was gone.
— Charles Dickens
By whom was man to be recalled to the grace of his original state? To whom belonged the restoration of the fallen one, the recovery of the lost, the leading back the wanderer by the hand? To whom else than entirely to Him Who is the Lord of his nature? For Him only Who at the first had given the life was it possible, or fitting, to recover it when lost. This is what we are taught and learn from the Revelation of the truth, that God in the beginning made man and saved him when he had fallen.
— Gregory of Nyssa