Quotes by : Oliver Sacks

As Sicknes is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes, is solitude...Solitude is a torment....

Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to....

I liked numbers because they were solid, invariant; they stood unmoved in a chaotic world. There was....

The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One....

...read 1984 when it came out in 1949, and found its account of the ‘memory hole’ peculiarly evocative....

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape;....

Perception is never purely in the present - it has to draw on experience of the past.

Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot....

And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the....

I am a storyteller, for better and for worse. I suspect that a feeling for stories, for narrative, is....