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Top 25 Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quotes (2025 Update)

Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “The slant of sun would slowly steepen towards mid-day, then lengthen as it slowly fell away.”

1. “The slant of sun would slowly steepen towards mid-day, then lengthen as it slowly fell away.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “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.”

2. “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.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “THERE IS A CERTAIN depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation; the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the only movement is the passage of time.”

3. “THERE IS A CERTAIN depth of illness that is piercing in its isolation; the only rule of existence is uncertainty, and the only movement is the passage of time.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “Still, my friends were golden threads randomly appearing in the monotonous fabric of my days.”

4. “Still, my friends were golden threads randomly appearing in the monotonous fabric of my days.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.”

5. “The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “Survival often depends on a specific focus: A relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the edge of possibility. Or something more ephemeral: the way the sun passes through the hard seemingly impenetrable glass of a window and warms the blanket, or how the wind, invisible but for its wake, is so loud one can hear it through the insulated walls of a house.”

6. “Survival often depends on a specific focus: A relationship, a belief, or a hope balanced on the edge of possibility. Or something more ephemeral: the way the sun passes through the hard seemingly impenetrable glass of a window and warms the blanket, or how the wind, invisible but for its wake, is so loud one can hear it through the insulated walls of a house.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.”

7. “Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life. – EDWARD O. WILSON, Biophilia, 1984.”

8. “Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life. – EDWARD O. WILSON, Biophilia, 1984.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “How wonderful it would be if we humans with illnesses could simply go dormant while the scientific world went about its snail-paced research, and wake only when new, safe medical treatments were available.”

9. “How wonderful it would be if we humans with illnesses could simply go dormant while the scientific world went about its snail-paced research, and wake only when new, safe medical treatments were available.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “The life of a snail is as full of tasty food, comfortable beds of sorts, and a mix of pleasant and not-so-pleasant adventures as that of anyone I know.”

10. “The life of a snail is as full of tasty food, comfortable beds of sorts, and a mix of pleasant and not-so-pleasant adventures as that of anyone I know.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “Whereas the future had once beckoned with many intriguing paths, now there was just one impossible route. So it was into the past, with its rich sedimentary layers, that my mind would go instead.”

11. “Whereas the future had once beckoned with many intriguing paths, now there was just one impossible route. So it was into the past, with its rich sedimentary layers, that my mind would go instead.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “We had each journeyed to this office from our own distant planet of illness. Though strangers, we became instant, silent companions. We were here for the same purpose: to describe our alien experience to the doctor in hope of survival advice.”

12. “We had each journeyed to this office from our own distant planet of illness. Though strangers, we became instant, silent companions. We were here for the same purpose: to describe our alien experience to the doctor in hope of survival advice.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “With its mysterious, fluid movement, the snail was the quintessential tai chi master.”

13. “With its mysterious, fluid movement, the snail was the quintessential tai chi master.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve.”

14. “While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “We all have some genes that for unknown reasons are in the “off” mode; perhaps scientists will someday figure out how to flip these switches, and we’ll each be able to choose other interesting animal traits: a tail, striped fur, wings, or even gastropod tentacles.”

15. “We all have some genes that for unknown reasons are in the “off” mode; perhaps scientists will someday figure out how to flip these switches, and we’ll each be able to choose other interesting animal traits: a tail, striped fur, wings, or even gastropod tentacles.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “Like Sleeping Beauty, a snail may not wake until circumstances are favorable – though, like Rip Van Winkle, it may wake into a changed world.”

16. “Like Sleeping Beauty, a snail may not wake until circumstances are favorable – though, like Rip Van Winkle, it may wake into a changed world.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “The snail and I were both living in altered landscapes not of our choosing; I figured we shared a sense of loss and displacement. E.”

17. “The snail and I were both living in altered landscapes not of our choosing; I figured we shared a sense of loss and displacement. E.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “What majesty is in a creeping Snail, what reflection, what earnestness, what timidity and yet at the same time what firm confidence!”

18. “What majesty is in a creeping Snail, what reflection, what earnestness, what timidity and yet at the same time what firm confidence!”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “One has to respect the preferences of another creature, no matter its size, and I did so gladly.”

19. “One has to respect the preferences of another creature, no matter its size, and I did so gladly.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “They would worry about wearing me out, but I could also see that I was a reminder of all they feared: chance, uncertainty, loss and the sharp edge of mortality.”

20. “They would worry about wearing me out, but I could also see that I was a reminder of all they feared: chance, uncertainty, loss and the sharp edge of mortality.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “My bed was an island within the desolate sea of my room. Yet I knew that there were other people home-bound from illness or injury, scattered here and there throughout rural towns and cities around the world. And as I lay there, I felt a connection to all of them. We, too, were a colony of hermits.”

21. “My bed was an island within the desolate sea of my room. Yet I knew that there were other people home-bound from illness or injury, scattered here and there throughout rural towns and cities around the world. And as I lay there, I felt a connection to all of them. We, too, were a colony of hermits.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “Was this truly a door that I would someday open and walk through, as if walking out into the world were an ordinary thing to do?”

22. “Was this truly a door that I would someday open and walk through, as if walking out into the world were an ordinary thing to do?”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve. As the Holocene mass extinction rushes on, which species will be left? And what new creatures will evolve that we cannot now imagine – for what creature could ever have imagined us?”

23. “While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve. As the Holocene mass extinction rushes on, which species will be left? And what new creatures will evolve that we cannot now imagine – for what creature could ever have imagined us?”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “As the snail’s world grew more familiar, my own human world became less so; my species was so large, so rushed, and so confusing.”

24. “As the snail’s world grew more familiar, my own human world became less so; my species was so large, so rushed, and so confusing.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “There was no woodsy fragrance blowing through my room, and the snail, especially while it lived in the pot of violets, must have been surprised by the kaleidoscope of unfamiliar smells, the scent of humans, human food, tea, soap, paper, and ink.”

25. “There was no woodsy fragrance blowing through my room, and the snail, especially while it lived in the pot of violets, must have been surprised by the kaleidoscope of unfamiliar smells, the scent of humans, human food, tea, soap, paper, and ink.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “I am going to withdraw from the world; nothing that happens there is any concern of mine.” And the snail went into his house and puttied up the entrance. – Hans Christian Andersen, “The Snail and the Rosebush,” 1861.”

26. “I am going to withdraw from the world; nothing that happens there is any concern of mine.” And the snail went into his house and puttied up the entrance. – Hans Christian Andersen, “The Snail and the Rosebush,” 1861.”

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Elisabeth Tova Bailey Quote: “Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten.”

27. “Illness isolates; the isolated become invisible; the invisible become forgotten.”

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