Failure Quote by Paul Kalanithi

“operative risk, it was the best kind of tumor to have, and the best place to have it; surgery would almost certainly eliminate her…

— Paul Kalanithi

“If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining?”

— Paul Kalanithi

“Yet the paradox is that scientific methodology is the product of human hands and thus cannot reach some permanent truth. We build scientific theories…

— Paul Kalanithi

“...but every day felt full of life, and of the relationships that give life meaning.”

— Paul Kalanithi

“I struggled, while facing my own death, to rebuild my old life—or perhaps find a new one.”

— Paul Kalanithi

“My imagined future and my personal identity collapsed.”

— Paul Kalanithi

“I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people,”

— Paul Kalanithi

“When a patient comes in with a fatal head bleed, that first conversation with a neurosurgeon may forever color how the family remembers the…

— Paul Kalanithi

“To the east, the full light of day beamed toward you; to the west, night reigned with no hint of surrender. No philosopher can…

— Paul Kalanithi

“I acted not, as I most often did, as death’s enemy, but as its ambassador. I had to help those families understand that the…

— Paul Kalanithi

“A scan showed that a benign brain tumor was pressing on her right frontal lobe. In terms of operative risk, it was the best…

— Paul Kalanithi

“Now more than ever, you have to be there for each other. I don’t want either of you staying up all night at the…

— Paul Kalanithi