"If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the……" — Abraham Verghese
"If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me."
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89 Quotes by Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese has 89 quotes on this site.
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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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We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no…
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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A beautiful literary collection that tells of today's country doctor, somewhat removed from our romantic black-bag image of days gone…
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Be careful! Travel expands the mind and loosens the bowels.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be.…
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The most important innovation in medicine to come in the next 10 years: the power of the human hand.
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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…
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No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging…
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In an emergency, what treatment is given by ear? Words of Comfort.
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Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?
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More Ecstasy Quotes
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks…
— Robert Browning
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If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must…
— Jean Cocteau
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I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every…
— Walter Russell
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
— Alexander Pushkin
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience,…
— Leo Buscaglia
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This is the very ecstasy of love.
— William Shakespeare
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I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism,…
— Martin Seligman
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We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the…
— Carl Sagan
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