Best Abraham Verghese Sayings
- Make something beautiful of your life. Beautiful
- Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that… Backward
- We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation. All
- We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget,… Beyond
- Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals Funny
- Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?"... "Shiva jumped up to the board, uninvited, and wrote 10,213,223"... "And pray, why would this number interest us?"… Board
- Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity,… Absurdity
- If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me. Ecstasy
- He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live. Die
- To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive. Around Someone
- No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son. Blade
- When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish… Closed
- She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that… Always Assumed
- How we treat the least of our brethren,... that's the measure of this country. Brethren
- He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him... Behind
- Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion. Dynamic
- What we are fighting isn't godlessness--this is the most godly country on earth. We aren't even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines... that… Basic
- There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed- Capacity
- When I wake to the gift of yet another sunrise my first thought is to rouse him and say, I owe you the sight of… Another Sunrise
- My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize the no money,… Bitterness
- A rich man's faults are covered with money, but a surgeon's faults are covered with earth. Covered
- Yesterday misspent can't be recall'd Vanity makes beauty contemptible Wisdom is more valuable than riches. Beauty
- You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why… Blind
- Geography is destiny. Destiny
- That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up… All
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