Shadows of the Workhouse (Call the Midwife)

by Jennifer Worth

Health is the greatest of God’s gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider’s web and the tiniest thing can make it snap, leaving the strongest of us helpless in an instant.

If there is one thing that a dying person needs more than relief from pain, it is love.

I am perfectly certain, through years of experience and observation, that unconsciousness, as we define it, is not a state of unknowing. Rather, it is a state of knowing and understanding on a different level that is beyond our immediate experience.

I reckon that single men make the best soldiers, because they have few regrets about what they leave behind.”

Old age is a time when we learn the virtue of humility.”