Rodney Symington

Time drowns more than it heals.

Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject.

A man's dying is more the survivors' affair than his own.

For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.

He found it difficult to believe in the existence of the outside world.

Illness is a detour, a sidetrack; it leads us astray.

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry.

The only virtue tolerated in the hospital is cheerfulness.

To rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Human beings can get used to anything, given time.