I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the…

Convalescence is a sort of grown-up rebirth, enabling us to see life with a fresh eye.

— Margaret Prescott Montague

“I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.”

— Rebecca Solnit

Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts…

— John Piper

Convalescence. Such an utter weakness that you lie like an animal hibernating, playing possum. You float. You are adrift. Every current is stronger than…

— Anais Nin

“By out-talking or bad-mouthing people, some get hoisted by their own petard, ultimately. When their sense of shame makes them crawl back to the…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Emily's convalescence was rather slow. Physically she recovered with normal celerity but a certain spiritual and emotional languor persisted for a time. One cannot…

— L.M. Montgomery

“had taken a college course on the subject. He remembered that the God of Healing and Convalescence was Telesphorus.”

— Steven Heitmeyer

“I am most spectacular in convalescence / of the night sky / when I break the shell / in search of silence as a plot device”

— Aaron Kent

“The free spirit again draws near to life - slowly, to be sure, almost reluctantly, almost mistrustfully. It again grows warmer about him, yellower…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in…

— Charles Lamb

For [D.H.] Lawrence, existence was one continuous convalescence; it was as though he were newly reborn from a mortal illness every day of his…

— Aldous Huxley

“During my convalescence I had bought and read for the first time, The King in Yellow. I remember after finishing the first act that…

— Anonymous

But if I must be alone, I refuse to be alone as if it were something weak and distasteful, like convalescence.

— Anonymous

I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to become a…

— Evie Wyld