Andre Rosado

“However, it did make the throwaway assumption that the mind
was simply the operation of the brain, an idea that struck me with force; it
startled my naïve understanding of the world. Of course, it must be true—
what were our brains doing, otherwise? Though we had free will, we were
also biological organisms—the brain was an organ, subject to all the laws of
physics, too”
― Paul Kalanithi

“When a patient comes in with a fatal head bleed, that first conversation with
a neurosurgeon may forever color how the family remembers the death,
from a peaceful letting go (“Maybe it was his time”) to an open sore of
regret (“Those doctors didn’t listen! They didn’t even try to save him!”).
When there’s no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon’s only tool”
― Paul Kalanithi

“You can’t ever reach perfection, but you can believe in an asymptote toward which you are ceaselessly striving.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air

“Seeing the body as matter and mechanism is the flip side to easing the most profound human suffering.”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air