Art Quote by T. S. Eliot

“Beneath the bleeding hands we feel / The sharp compassion of the healer’s art.”

— Dean Koontz

Some wounds grow worse beneath the surgeon's hand; Better that they were not touched at all.

— Ovid

“ON A DAY LATE THAT JANUARY, I READ AGAIN “EAST Coker” by the poet T. S. Eliot, and saw something that I had forgotten:…

— Dean Koontz

“The surgeons like to bleed a man, to let ill humours out, so that he may face the world anew. Perhaps they should just…

— Mark Lawrence

A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

— Bernie Siegel

The condition of the wounded touched my heart deeply.

— Christiaan Rudolf de Wet

Your afflictions may only prove that you are more immediately under the Father's hand. There is no time that the patient is such an…

— Robert Murray M'Cheyne

“There’s something wrong about trying to heal with a surgeon’s knife.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

“A person who has been seriously wounded does not demand that the bandages that save his life be clean.”

— Yukio Mishima

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only…

— Oscar Wilde

“The wound has gradually become dearer to me than my own flesh and blood, and I have thought its pain to be the emotion…

— Osamu Dazai

It is the surgeon’s duty to tranquillize the temper, to beget cheerfulness, and to impart confidence of recovery.

— Astley Cooper