Quotes by Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese

According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn’t speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We’ll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

Broken

Generations

Tasks

Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

Another Day

Paradise

Precious Gifts

Being the first born gives you great patience.

Born

Firsts

Giving

Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.

Role Models

School

Uncles

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Broken

Lovely

Loyalty

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

Judging

Suffering

Thinking

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

Climbing

Escaping

House

How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.

Brethren

Country

Treats

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

People

Scripture

Thinking

I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.

Believe

Black

Past

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Alive

America

Angel

Another Day

Baptism

Beautiful

Believe

Black

Blessed

Born

Brethren

Broken

Cancer

Caught

Climbing

Comfort

Common

Country

Cutting

Cynical

Definitions

Destiny

Dream

Ears

Emergencies

Enough

Escaping

Exam

Fascinated

Father

Feelings

Fighting

Firsts

Generations

Giving

Godly

Greatness

Grew

Hands

Heart

Heartbeat

Holes

Home

House

Hurt

Ignorance

Imagination

Important

Inspiration

Intrusion

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Quotes by Abraham Verghese

Abraham Verghese

Another day in paradise’ was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

Being the first born gives you great patience.

Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around but he carried it off so well.

Don’t Let Him Know is a rich, evocative and brilliantly told tale of family, of loyalties, and of love that must stay secret. Sandip Roy has broken new ground in this tale of the modern Indian family. A lovely read

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.

He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him.

How we treat the least of our brethren,… that’s the measure of this country.

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

I believe in black holes. I believe that as the universe empties into nothingness, past and future will smack together in the last swirl around the drain.

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