Paul Kalanithi Quotes

Everyone succumbs to finitude. I suspect I am not the only one who reaches this pluperfect state. Most ambitions are either achieved or abandoned; either way, they belong to the past. The future, instead of the ladder toward the goals of life, flattens out into a perpetual present.

Paul Kalanithi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 1, 1977 - March 9, 2015

Topics

LifeGoalsFuturePastI AmPresent

In the great battle of Antietam, still the bloodiest day in American history, Union forces were led by Gen. George McClellan, an incredibly cautious man.

Michael Hayden

HistoryGreatDayManBattleForces

I start each collection thinking how I can refresh my classics.

Jean Paul Gaultier

StartThinkingI CanRefreshHow

Different roles call for different aspects or different faces of Sterling to emerge.

Sterling K. Brown

CallFacesDifferentDifferent Roles

If I'm on the bench, I want to be ready.

Son Heung-min

ReadyWantBench

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

Simone de Beauvoir

LifeManYourselfYouFindWhy

Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl's Center for Philadelphia.

Robert Brady

GirlCommunityPhiladelphiaNewOpen

The NBC News people won't get caught dead on MSNBC.

Roger Ailes

PeopleNewsDeadGetCaughtMSNBC

I've always been like, if society's trying to push me in one direction, I always rebel against it, thinking, 'Nope, I'm going to do the opposite, something that is not expected.'

Rose Namajunas

MeSocietyDirectionThinkingPush

If I'm super scared or sick, I'll still suck my thumb.

Ron Funches

SickScaredSuckStillThumbSuper

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

Mary Harris Jones

ChildrenSewingLittlePreferred

Endnotes, often confused with footnotes that live at the bottom of a page, is that lump of text at the end of the book, sometimes even relegated to a tiny font size. They're often forgotten but, in nonfiction, particularly history books, can offer a fascinating footprint into the author's research, a joyful, geeky abyss.

Mary Pilon

LiveHistoryResearchBookEndPage

It's up to Kim Jong Il to make that decision, and we can't make that for him.

Mitchell Reiss

DecisionHimUpMakeKim

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