You can't ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.Paul Kalanithi
I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people, bringing our brains, shielded in centimeter-thick skulls, into communion.Paul Kalanithi
Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when.Paul Kalanithi
The tricky part of illness is that, as you go through it, your values are constantly changing.Paul Kalanithi
Even if I’m dying, until I actually die, I am still living.Paul Kalanithi
Death may be a one-time event, but living with terminal illness is a process.Paul Kalanithi
There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of living. We are never so wise as when we live in this moment.Paul Kalanithi
The future I had imagined, the one just about to be realized, the culmination of decades of striving, evaporated.Paul Kalanithi
I can't go on. I'll go on.Paul Kalanithi
I had passed from the subject to the direct object of every sentence of my life.Paul Kalanithi