Bedside Quote by Nancy Astor

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.

— James Purefoy

Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed…

— Jennifer Worth

A good conscience will be found a pleasant visitor at our bedside in a dying hour.

— J. C. Ryle

“Am I dying, or is this my birthday?”

— Nancy Astor

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal…

— Marcia Wallace

By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to…

— John Berendt

Mental illness was a family secret. This patient had four children grow up in foster homes, and they never knew her. It was heart-wrenching…

— Sean Moran

“Khloe flopped on one of the couches, pulling me down with her. She pouted. “And LT won’t even tell me. Her best friend forever,…

— Jessica Burkhart

Jakie, is it my birthday or am I dying ?

— Nancy Astor

Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in the lecture…

— William Osler

“If we know the books located at the bedside, we know much about the man.”

— Douglas L. Callister

Oh, may she deign to stand atmy bedside When I come to die; and may she call to me And draw me to her…

— Petrarch