Author of quotes: Gender Kalanithi

When a person understands that his time was running short, the first thought that comes to his mind is "full life": travel, delicious to eat, to achieve what he always dreamed of.

...each of us sees only part of the picture of the world: the doctor - one patient - another engineer - the third, the economist, the fourth driver and the fifth, alcoholic - sixth, electrician seventh, breeder sheep eighth, the Indian beggar - ninth the pastor tenth. One person is never enough to hold all the knowledge accumulated by humanity. This knowledge grows in us through the relationship we establish with other people and the world around them, but the full picture is never us and will not open.

Even if your idea of virtue is formed, as well as Leviticus, you can't live by it constantly. It's not just impossible, it's absurd.

Scientists can put forward theories about matter and energy, but scientific knowledge is not applicable to the existential nature of human life that is unique, subjective and unpredictable. Science is able to logically organize the empirical, reproducible information, but it can't Central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, jealousy, honor, weakness, struggle, suffering and virtue.

Perhaps, in the absence of any confidence we have to believe that we still have a lot of time. The only way to live.

Death is a one - time event, but life with a deadly disease is a process.

A feature of any serious illness that, while it progresses, your life values are constantly changing. Trying to figure out what is important to you, you have constantly new ways to prioritize.

...truly understand the experience I received I will be able only when you Express them in language.

Many years ago I realized that Darwin and Nietzsche came to a consensus on one thing: the distinctive characteristic of a living organism is to fight. Life without struggle would be like a tiger without stripes.

In the face of death, many decisions have to be made urgently and irrevocably.

... I would prefer to be ugly, but alive.

The realization that you will die is scary, but to live otherwise, no way.

Dangerous disease not just changing lives, it takes it.

Don't you think that parting with the child will make your death even harder?
But isn't it worth it?