Heart Quotes by Abraham Verghese

9 Heart quotes by Abraham Verghese

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Verghese’s medical background lends a compassionate lens to emotional wounds, each observation a gentle stitch. Though the list is short, it offers comforting reassurance for anyone seeking solace.

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We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician…

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She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life…

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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.

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When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed…

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“She drew others to her like acolytes only for them to discover she wasn't recruiting.”

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I think we learn from medicine everywhere that it is, at its heart, a human endeavor, requiring good science but also a…

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“...just as she kept her thoughts to herself, I was learning to do the same. This was what growing up was about:…

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My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize…

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She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child…

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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.

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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we…

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“Do they listen?" He held up a finger. "Every year one does," he said, ginning, "But that one makes it worthwhile. Even Jesus only…

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“It seems we humans never learn. And so we relearn the lesson every generation and then want to write epistles. We proselytize to our…

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It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.

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“There it was, Hema must have thought; it was both the sorry and the thank-you that was so long overdue, and the funny thing…

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“This is my life, I thought, as my taxi slogged through heavy traffic and inched through the tunnel to Logan Airport. I have excised…

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“I could see that the almost mystical aura of this legendary surgeon -- the single-mindedness, the dedication, the skill -- was mere surface. The…

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“As a child I'd longed for Thomas Stone or at least the idea of him. So many mornings I waited for him at the…

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“The reader, knowing nothing about the ‘dark continent,’ filled in the blanks. Pictured Stone in a tent, kerosene lamp held up by a Hottentot…

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“This was what growing up was about: hide the corpse, don't bare your heart, do make assumptions about the motives of others. They're certainly…

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“And as for my father? No, he wouldn't ever walk through those gates; I now knew that. Whatever Thomas Stone had, wherever he was…

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“... telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology.”

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