Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
There is, to be sure, sometimes only a small difference between being alert to possible danger and allowing oneself to become terrified to the… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
“Leonardo, with his profound knowledge of art, commenced various undertakings, many of which he never completed, because it appeared to him that the hand… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
Do you know what the world will be saved by? I'll tell you. It'll be saved by the human spirit. And by the human… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
It's unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life's work. It leads… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
Death is the surcease that comes when the exhausting battle has been lost. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
Every hope of successive generations of scholars that order might be constructed from the chaotic mess of medical nomenclature has been frustrated. Even diseases… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
The more personal you are willing to be and the more intimate you are willing to be about the details of your own life,… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
“We die so that the world may continue to live. We have been given the miracle of life because trillions upon trillions of living… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
Cancer cells are fixed at an age where they are still too young to have learned the rules of the society in which they… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share
