Quotes by : Abraham Verghese

You are an instrument of God. Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no....

I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will....

Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word....

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

I've never bought this idea of taking a therapeutic distance. If I see a student or house staff cry,....

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings.....

Children were the foot wedged in the closing door, the glimmer of hope that in reincarnation there would....

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.....

Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism....

it was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory." p 380....