“The feelings are similar, in some ways, to those one has in Rome or Athens, but quite different in other ways, because… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“Other worlds, other lives, even though so different from our own, have the power of arousing the sympathetic imagination, of awakening an… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“And I myself was wrung with emotion -- it was heartbreaking, it was absurd, it was deeply perplexing, to think of his… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“I appreciated that all animals have some form of mental life that reflects the architecture of their nervous system.” — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“What a paradox, what a cruelty, what an irony, there is here—that inner life and imagination may lie dull and dormant unless… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“what sort of a life (if any), what sort of a world, what sort of a self, can be preserved in a… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“My note was a strange mixture of facts and observations, carefully noted and itemised, with irrepressible meditations on what such problems might… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makes our… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“The feelings are similar, in some ways, to those one has in Rome or Athens, but quite different in other ways, because this culture… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ears. — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognise and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“But it must be said from the outset that a disease is never a mere loss or excess— that there is always a reaction,… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding to different… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Who cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the feeling of… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“unconscious motives may sometimes ally themselves to physiological propensities, of how one cannot abstract an ailment or its treatment from the whole pattern, the… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said that each… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you.… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
