Hospitals Quotes

The church to-day is a hospital for sick dogmas. Every Christian doctrine is a cripple; not one can walk or stand alone. Orthodoxy has put a false valuation on things. It calls a man good who goes to church, offers a prayer in public and accepts the Bible as the word of God; it calls […]

It’s like a convent, the hospital. You leave the world behind and take vows of poverty, chastity, obedience.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.

A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors.

Hospital rooms seem to have vastly more ceiling than any rooms people live in.

The only equipment lack in the modernized hospital? Somebody to meet you at the entrance with a handshake!

If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily about our ears.

A hospital is no place to be sick.

Hospitals, like airports and supermarkets, only pretend to be open nights and weekends.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.