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In taking up another's cross, one must sometimes get crushed by the weight. — Paul Kalanithi

Neurosurgery requires a commitment to one's own excellence and a commitment to another's identity. The — Paul Kalanithi

How much neurologic suffering would you let your child endure before saying that death is preferable? — Paul Kalanithi

Suffering can make us callous to the obvious suffering of another. — Paul Kalanithi

Maybe, in the absence of any certainty, we should just assume that we're going to live a long time. Maybe that's the only way forward. — Paul Kalanithi

there's that study that says doctors do a worse job prognosticating for patients they're personally invested in. — Paul Kalanithi

If time dilates when one moves at high speeds, does it contract when one moves barely at all? It must: the days have shortened considerably. — Paul Kalanithi

When there is no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon's only tool. — Paul Kalanithi

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job --- not a calling. — Paul Kalanithi

You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving. — Paul Kalanithi

[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture - and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death. — Paul Kalanithi

Learning to judge whose lives could be saved, whose couldn't be, and whose shouldn't be requires an unattainable prognostic ability. — Paul Kalanithi

If the weight of mortality does not grow lighter, does it at least get more familiar? — Paul Kalanithi

This was summer at Sierra Camp, perhaps no different from — Paul Kalanithi

Literature not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for moral reflection. — Paul Kalanithi

Nobody has it coming. — Paul Kalanithi

How little do doctors understand the hells through which we put patients. — Paul Kalanithi

The MRI shows a mass in your brain, which is causing your symptoms." Silence. "Do you want to see the MRI?" "Yes." I — Paul Kalanithi

The pain of failure had led me to understand that technical excellence was a moral requirement. — Paul Kalanithi

mind was simply the operation of the brain, an idea that struck me with force; it startled my naive understanding of the world — Paul Kalanithi

Out of his pen he was spinning gold. — Paul Kalanithi

Mortal duty has weight, things that have weight have gravity, and so the duty to bear mortal responsibility pulled me back. — Paul Kalanithi

all have a notion of what it means to be good, and we can't live up to it all the time. — Paul Kalanithi

Always the seer is a sayer," Emerson wrote. "Somehow his dream is told; somehow he publishes it with solemn joy. — Paul Kalanithi

The mind was simply the operation of the brain. — Paul Kalanithi

At those critical junctures, the question is not simply whether to live or die but what kind of life is worth living. — Paul Kalanithi

Looking out over the expanse ahead I saw not an empty wasteland but something simpler: a blank page on which I would go on. — Paul Kalanithi

The truth that you live one day at a time didn't help: What was I supposed to do with that day? — Paul Kalanithi

Science, I had come to learn, is as political, competitive, and fierce a career as you can find, full of the temptation to find easy paths — Paul Kalanithi

Where did biology, morality, literature, and philosophy intersect? — Paul Kalanithi

The decision to operate at all involves an appraisal of one's own abilities, as well as a deep sense of who the patient is and what she holds dear. — Paul Kalanithi

tureen of tragedy was best allotted by the spoonful. — Paul Kalanithi

Doctors, it turns out, need hope, too. — Paul Kalanithi

Diseases are molecules misbehaving; the basic requirement of life is metabolism, and death its cessation. — Paul Kalanithi

I got out of bed and took a step forward, repeating the phrase over and over: "I can't go on. I'll go on. — Paul Kalanithi

The word hope first appeared in English about a thousand years ago, denoting some combination of confidence and desire. But — Paul Kalanithi

Even in having children in this new life, death played its part. — Paul Kalanithi

As a doctor, you have a sense of what it's like to be sick, but until you've gone through it yourself, you don't really know. — Paul Kalanithi

But my focus would have to be on my imminent role, intimately involved with the when and how of death - the grave digger with the forceps. Not — Paul Kalanithi

Few books I had read so directly and wholly addressed that fundamental fact of existence: all organisms, whether goldfish or grandchild, die. — Paul Kalanithi

Neurosurgery seemed to present the most challenging and direct confrontation with meaning, identity, and death. — Paul Kalanithi

Some days, I simply persist. — Paul Kalanithi

Years ago, it had occurred to me that Darwin and Nietzsche agreed on one thing: the defining characteristic of the organism is striving. Describing — Paul Kalanithi

I could either study meaning or I could experience it. After — Paul Kalanithi

A tureen of tragedy was best allotted by the spoonful. Only a few patients demanded the whole at once; most needed time to digest. — Paul Kalanithi

I was making the decision to do this work because this work, to me, was a sacred thing.) Lucy — Paul Kalanithi

What happened to Paul was tragic, but he was not a tragedy. — Paul Kalanithi

Cadaver dissection epitomizes, for many, the transformation of the somber, respectful student into the callous, arrogant doctor. — Paul Kalanithi

What kind of life exists without language? — Paul Kalanithi

What are you most afraid or sad about?" she asked me one night as we were lying in bed.

"Leaving you," I told her. — Paul Kalanithi

I had traversed the line from doctor to patient, from actor to acted upon, from subject to direct object. — Paul Kalanithi

It's very easy to be number one; find the guy who is number one, and score one point higher than he does. — Paul Kalanithi

my imagined future and my personal identity collapsed, and I faced the same existential quandaries my patients faced. — Paul Kalanithi

The root of disaster means a star coming apart. — Paul Kalanithi

Death may be a one-time event, but living with terminal illness is a process. — Paul Kalanithi

Words have a longevity I do not. — Paul Kalanithi

Frail but never weak. — Paul Kalanithi

values of Christianity - sacrifice, redemption, forgiveness - because — Paul Kalanithi

The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live. - — Paul Kalanithi

Do you think my life has meaning? Did I make the right choices? — Paul Kalanithi

It's not fair - I've been diluting my drinks with water." A — Paul Kalanithi

And with that, the future I had imagined, the one just about to be realized, the culmination of decades of striving, evaporated. — Paul Kalanithi

Humans are organisms, subject to physical laws, including, alas, the one that says entropy always increases. — Paul Kalanithi

the heroic spirit of responsibility amid blood and failure. This struck me as the true image of a doctor. — Paul Kalanithi

If the unexamined life was not worth living, was the unlived life worth examining? — Paul Kalanithi

In fourteenth-century philosophy, the word patient simply meant "the object of an action, — Paul Kalanithi

(Alexander Pope: "A little learning is a dangerous thing; / Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.") — Paul Kalanithi

Graham Greene once said that life was lived in the first twenty years and the remainder was just reflection. So — Paul Kalanithi