Elisabeth Tova Bailey Professions : Author Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Elisabeth Tova Bailey Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health. Elisabeth Tova Bailey good-health silent illness Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten. But the snail....the snail kept my spirit from evaporating. Elisabeth Tova Bailey illness spirit forgotten Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties... Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all. Elisabeth Tova Bailey leaving purpose memories We are all hostages of time. We each have the same number of minutes and hours to live within a day, yet to me it didn't feel equally doled out. My illness brought me such an abundance of time that time was nearly all I had. My friends had so little time that I often wished I could give them what time I could not use. It was perplexing how in losing health I had gained something so coveted but to so little purpose. Elisabeth Tova Bailey use numbers giving Similar Authors F. E. Marsh author Iimani David author Beatrice Faust author Isabella Macdonald Alden author Isabella Beeton author Alan AtKisson author All Authors
