Welcome to the world of Hospital Quotes, where we delve into the profound, humorous, and sometimes poignant words uttered within the walls of healthcare institutions. Hospitals are places of healing, hope, and resilience, and the words spoken by patients, doctors, nurses, and visitors within these hallowed halls often encapsulate the complex emotions and experiences that surround healthcare. Whether it’s a comforting phrase from a nurse, a doctor’s sage advice, or a patient’s reflection on their journey, the quotes you’ll find on this page offer a glimpse into the diverse and deeply human aspects of the hospital environment.
Below, you’ll find a collection of hospital quotes that span the spectrum of emotions and perspectives. These quotes can be a source of inspiration, comfort, or even amusement. Feel free to explore, copy them, place them on an image, or enhance them with stylish fonts to create your own personalized visuals. Join us in celebrating the resilience of the human spirit and the profound impact of healthcare through the words that echo in the corridors of hospitals worldwide.
I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred. Gordon B. Hinckley
I grew up in Shropshire, but I was born in Wales. There was a hospital seven miles away, but my dad drove 45 miles over the Welsh border so I could play rugby for Wales. But as a skinny asthmatic, I was only ever good at swimming. Greg Davies
I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one. Aneurin Bevan
Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet. Quentin Blake
Talk about a woman of a certain age – Pearl Buck was a great prototype of continuing to work. She was in the hospital dying of cancer, and in the next room was her secretary, typing out her next book. Valerie Harper
My parents were working in a hospital in Memphis. But I didn’t live there for any length of time that I remember. The first thing I remember is the town in Mississippi that I live in now, Charleston. Morgan Freeman
For many people, the age of 20 is when they first reach adulthood, and it’s a time full of ideals and dreams. But when I was 20, a lot of misfortune came along. I spent a year in the hospital and couldn’t move, and I was forced to think a lot. Lee Min-ho
When someone’s in the hospital – be it a family member or anyone that has something wrong with them – if you love ’em, then you visit them. Joey Jordison
It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm. Florence Nightingale
When I came to this country in 1958, to be a dying patient in a medical hospital was a nightmare. You were put in the last room, furthest away from the nurses’ station. You were full of pain, but they wouldn’t give you morphine. Nobody told you that you were full of cancer and that it was understandable that you had pain and needed medication. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room. Bun E. Carlos
Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the ’60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the ’70s and through the hospital wards of the ’80s and onwards to the streets. Lance Loud
The power of community to create health is far greater than any physician, clinic or hospital. Mark Hyman
I don’t think I can do this – painting under observation. It’s the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital. Gerhard Richter
I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a… very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital. I. King Jordan
My Dad is finally proud of me. He always wanted me to be a footballer. He is a football hooligan, a true obsessive, if I had been born on match day he would not have been at the hospital, so for me to be able to at least pretend to be a footballer, means I’m finally allowed home at Christmas. Brett Goldstein
I’m training to become a giggle doctor. It’s a kind of hospital clown who changes the atmosphere on the ward and helps recovery. It’s about making patients laugh but also much more. Nina Conti
People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water. Manoj Bhargava
I spent around Rs 25 lakh and went in for a plastic surgery at a Hyderabad hospital, and now I am the proud owner of a perfect heart-shaped bum. Sherlyn Chopra
One’s family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way: One of these days I’ll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who’ll be with me will be my family. Robert Byrd
I always had to diet. I’m diabetic, so it’s a lifestyle for me anyway just to stay healthy and not end up in the hospital. Halle Berry
I had scarcely met Stephen, and then one Saturday I met some old friends for coffee, and they were saying, ‘Gosh it’s terrible about Stephen, isn’t it?’ They told me that he had been in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital in London having horrible tests and then had been diagnosed with an atypical form of a rare disease – motor neurone disease. Jane Hawking
The darkest moments for me weren’t necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. It was those quiet moments alone when I just hated the person I had become. Jodie Sweetin
I grew up in a family full of strong women. A great aunt on my mother’s side had been a matron on a hospital ship in World War II, and one on my father’s side had served in the Women’s Royal Naval Service. Nick Earls
I was stabbed when I was 17. It was touch and go, and my lung collapsed, and I was in hospital for five days. It is part of my back story. Ed Skrein
My mother told me, ‘Son, nobody else but God knows.’ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do. Mr. T
I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work there in a hospital. So I went back into my family archives and was able to find out his exact address; it was a street that was in the French Concession. Kevin Kwan
New York was scarier than Baltimore ever was. It was terrible in the ’70s. I’m glad they cleaned it up. I got mugged; I had to go to the hospital. Every time you went out, you got robbed. It was horrible. You can’t imagine. John Waters
Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps me out of a hospital, alive, and makes psychotherapy possible. Kay Redfield Jamison
Right before my dad died he was planning to go to New York City for the video music awards that he was nominated for, the MTV music awards. You couldn’t tell him he wasn’t going to go. It was going to happen. But he wound up having to check into the hospital there, and not too long later he died. But his spirit never gave up – his body did. John Carter Cash
Sophomore year, I got hit in the stomach playing football, and I was out of school for four months. I was in the hospital for two and then out of school for two. Chad Michael Murray
If one of you pass out and go to the emergency room, the hospital has to see you. But when you go to the emergency room, you’ve had a stroke, or you’ve had a heart attack. If you had preventative medicine, you could maybe be taking your high blood pressure medicine so you wouldn’t have a stroke and cut down the costs. Corrine Brown
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark. Steven Wright
I’m hugely fond of Scotland. My daughter, Jemma, was born in the Simpson Memorial Maternity Hospital in Edinburgh, and it always tickled me that she was so vexed she didn’t have a Scottish accent even though she was brought up down south. Rick Wakeman
I just had that conversation this morning with my doctor. I just got back from the hospital a half-hour ago, and nothing will make me happier than to replicate the DNA of my amazing husband. I’m optimistic. Karen Duffy
I’ve been going to shopping malls since I was on General Hospital. Richard Simmons
A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. Pauline Phillips
When I was in the hospital, everyone was worried for me, and I realised that I had to do something in my life so that people would stop looking at me with pity. I spoke to my elder brother and my coach about climbing the Everest, and they encouraged me. Arunima Sinha
I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else. Pope Francis
I was in Congress for six months, and they put me on blood pressure medication. I flew helicopters in combat and I was fine, and I survived 13 months in recovery in the hospital… I got to Congress, and six months later I’m on blood pressure medication. Fourteen months later, they doubled the dosage! Tammy Duckworth
If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine – it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster. Jack Ma
Sometimes, patients with serious mental illness, just as with other serious medical illnesses, require hospitalization. In the absence of available public or private hospital beds, there are few options. Thomas R. Insel
I had terrible ear problems and asthma and allergies. I spent quite a bit of time in hospital up to the age of eight so was not – am still not – extraordinarily intelligent. Tim Minchin
In 1880 at the Military Hospital at Constantine, I discovered, on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of a patient suffering from malaria, filiform elements resembling flagellae which were moving very rapidly, displacing the neighbouring red cells. Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
I was just at home walking around at home, and I started feel, well, just funny. You know how you can feel funny? I had a strange pain in my chest. So my housekeeper took me to the hospital, when they hooked me up and did all these tests turned out I had a big heart attack. Phil Rudd
A hospital is no place to be sick. Samuel Goldwyn
I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That’s something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie ‘Precious.’ I couldn’t handle it. So I said to myself, ‘I don’t have a mother. I don’t need one. I’m going to let music be my mother.’ Quincy Jones
There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don’t relive it, recreate it. Sylvia Plath
My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason. Oscar Isaac
I’ve been in the hospital once when I had my daughter, and, oh, when I broke my elbow, but other than that, I’ve been very fortunate. Hillary Clinton
When I was presenting ‘Animal Hospital,’ the grey started to creep into my beard and moustache. I used my wife’s mascara to darken it. Rolf Harris
I can be poor, I can lose a job, I can have a hospital bill that I don’t know how to pay, for I can do all these things through Him who strengthens me. John Piper
I love getting scared. I find myself putting myself in situations like haunted houses or going to a haunted hospital for my birthday. Yes, I’ve actually done that. Selena Gomez
My hate comments on YouTube tell me to go back to where I came from. I was born in Hackensack Hospital. I’ll go back there. Rachel Zegler
In the earliest years of the AIDS crisis, there were many gay men who were unable to come out about the fact that their lovers were ill, A, and then dead, B. They were unable to get access to the hospital to see their lover, unable to call their parents and say, ‘I have just lost the love of my life.’ Judith Butler
My own medical history during my hospital stay was readily available to me through literally thousands of pages of medical records that outlined everything from my ‘bowel releasing’ schedule to the minute details of my brain biopsy procedure. Susannah Cahalan
Ethiopia’s government is doing a commendable job of working closely with donors and humanitarian organizations to educate parents about child marriage, and to support organizations like the Hamlin Fistula Hospital. Helene D. Gayle
Be an advocate for your loved ones in the hospital. Ask tough questions of your local hospital and health system about preparedness for the likeliest emergencies, and express your views on how medical resources should be allocated in case they ever fall short. Sheri Fink
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. Stephen King
In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn’t white and I wasn’t black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them. Patrick Soon-Shiong
Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections. Robert Kiyosaki
My parents are both English. My dad is a plastic surgeon – his name’s Norman Waterhouse, but we call him Normy. And my mom’s a nurse, which is how they met – in a hospital, over decaying bone. Suki Waterhouse
Peyton Manning donated, I think, $10 million to start a children’s hospital here in Indianapolis. Whenever you see something like that, you go, ‘Okay, not only can I be great on the football field, I can also be great off of the field.’ Pat McAfee
I became convinced that there was greater satisfaction from giving my money away and seeing something come out of the ground, like a hospital or a university. Chuck Feeney
My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand. Barbra Streisand
I watch so much TV, it’s sad. I watch ‘Happy Endings’, ’30 Rock’, ‘Parks and Rec’, ‘The Office’, ‘Eagleheart’, ‘Children’s Hospital’. ‘Modern Family’ I guess I’m still kinda watching. Anders Holm
An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated. Madalyn Murray O’Hair
It doesn’t hit you until you pull up to the hospital, and you see ‘cancer’ in big letters, and you’re the patient. Then it all kind of comes home. John Prine
As a pastor, you get invited into the most poignant moments of people’s lives. Whether it’s a wedding or a funeral or a hospital visit, you get invited into the center of the event, whether or not you know the people. Rob Bell
People end up on the street for many different reasons – leaving care or hospital, problems with debt, unemployment, mental health, family breakup – and so the help they need is varied, too. Sadiq Khan
By the time I got to the hospital, I certainly realised that I had a problem because I couldn’t write or print at that time, which lasted luckily only about four months. I’d gone numb here and on my tongue and the right foot a little bit. John Newcombe
I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be. Princess Diana
My father was and is a great father. My father always wanted to do stand-up. He wanted to be an actor. But instead he did two jobs. He did customer service at a hospital and he worked as a waiter at night. He pretty much sacrificed everything for his daughters. Sherri Shepherd
It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thinking, ‘If only you’d take these tubes out, it feels so nice.’ It felt so – it felt like being in a bath of velvet. It was such a nice feeling. Everything felt so soft and floppy, and I wanted to go. Pete Burns
In Alabama, when you come out of the hospital, they have to stamp your birth certificate with either Alabama or Auburn, or you don’t leave. Dabo Swinney
The experiencing self lives in the moment; it is the one that answers the question, ‘Does it hurt?’ or ‘What were you thinking about just now?’ The remembering self is the one that answers questions about the overall evaluation of episodes or periods of one’s life, such as a stay in the hospital or the years since one left college. Daniel Kahneman
When the sun is shining, enjoy the sun; when the rain is raining, dance in the rain – you’re going to get wet anyway. And if you slip and injure your back, at least you get some time to relax in hospital. Lou Sanders
I’ve been vegan since I got out of the hospital… It’s another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways. Travis Barker
You don’t appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed. Fabrice Muamba
I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful. Ariana Grande
I had a head injury when I was living in England; I was in the hospital for three days, and they didn’t even ask for my name. I spent three days in there. And then, when I was done, I just got up and left. I wasn’t a British citizen; I was there on a work permit. Jim Jefferies
I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself. Amy Winehouse
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. Groucho Marx
The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible. Glen Mazzara
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it. Erma Bombeck
I’ve always been a fan of George C. Scott, who was working in movies when I was in college… films like ‘Patton’ and ‘Hospital.’ I was really impressed by him, and I had seen him onstage as well in ‘Uncle Vanya.’ He was a champ to me. Bill Pullman
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. Charles Baudelaire
Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit. Mr. T
How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I went into hospital with left-side weakness and speech problems and was diagnosed with a stroke. And then I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Kadeena Cox
My son was born during my last semester in college. His due date was Thanksgiving, but he didn’t show up until finals week. I brought my books to the hospital and didn’t think anything of it. That is what a father is supposed to do. LZ Granderson
I kind of went into soap opera with ‘General Hospital’ in the ’80s. It’s like theater because every day it’s a new script, which really doesn’t have a beginning, middle or end like a play or a movie script. So you have to be on your toes and bring it every day. And you have to be spontaneous, which is really how I like to work. Jack Wagner
Ten days before I started my job at ABC News, I checked myself into a mental health hospital. Ginger Zee
My father earned his citizenship by serving in the Army during World War II. He devoted his life to caring for our nations veterans at a VA hospital in Buffalo, New York. That desire to serve fellow Americans propelled my four siblings into medical careers, too. Tom Perez
I can’t speak for everyone, but I know that I definitely don’t want to be a consistent plastic surgery, cosmetic kind of scenario. I don’t like going to the hospital. I don’t want to put myself through pain. So I’m very limited; I know what I need, and then I call it a day. Farrah Abraham
I am about to get involved with the biggest cancer hospital in Norway. They are building a fitness center to work with patients. I will be a consultant. Grete Waitz
My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My mother was kind of a sophisticated bohemian, and my father was in the military to make a living. Annie Leibovitz
A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas. Aminatta Forna
A hospital alone shows what war is. Erich Maria Remarque
The world is becoming an immense military base, and that base is becoming a mental hospital the size of the world. Inside the nuthouse, which ones are crazy? Eduardo Galeano
