« All Life Quotes · Oliver Sacks's Page
Life Quotes by Oliver Sacks
- We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
- I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
- People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite…
- There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they…
- It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and…
- Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ... This danger is built…
- Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But…
- In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.
- Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and…
- To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative,…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle