Quotes by : Paul Kalanithi

People react differently to hearing 'Procedure X has a 70 percent chance of survival' and 'Procedure....

Everything teeters between pathos and bathos: here you are, violating society's most fundamental taboos....

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

What makes human life meaningful? I still felt literature provided the best account of the life of the....

People often ask if it was calling. My answer always is yes.

Human knowledge is never contained in just one person.

Time for me is now double-edged: every day brings me further from the low of my last relapse but closer....

Literature not only illuminated another's experience, it provided, I believed, the richest material for....

Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each....

Before operating on a patient's brain, I realized, I must first understand his mind: his identity, his....