Medical Department Detachment

Famous quotes containing the words medical, department and/or detachment:

    “They said I’d never get you back again.
    I tell you what you’ll never really know:
    all the medical hypothesis
    that explained my brain will never be as true as these
    struck leaves letting go.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it.”
    —Tennessee Williams (1914–1983)

    “There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)