Sherwin B. Nuland Quotes

All of us want to live, and that is absolutely natural. However, we should learn from childhood on to choose our best way to die. If we don't do that, we end up spending our days like a dog, only in search of harbour, food and expressing a blind loyalty to his owner in return. That isn't enough to make our lives have a meaning.

Death is Inevitable. Living a life we can be proud of is something we can control.

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.

Life fundamentally does not change depending on work or fame or success.

My life is not important here.

There is no such thing as an optimum life.

There is a lot more to this life than just the struggle to make money.

Death deserves dignity.

Young adults in their late 20s are confronted by so many choices - there are so many different paths to choose. Sometimes I think we just fill our lives with stuff so we don't really make any choice at all, which is certainly incredibly luxurious.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.

I think there is, in our society, there is a growing fear of death, a fear of the circumstances in which I might die, a fear I might be over-treated or under-treated. But fear is always a bad guide. Death is part of life.

I don't want a few extra weeks of life at enormous cost, for example, when it comes to the end.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.

The final disease that nature inflicts on us will determine the atmosphere in which we take our leave of life, but our own choices should be allowed, insofar as possible, to be the decisive factor in the manner of our going.

I accept the dying process. I would just like to be as healthy as I possibly can at each step and phase along the way.

I've always known there's more to life than just racing for a long time.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

'Death with dignity' is our society's expression of the universal yearning to achieve a graceful triumph over the stark and often repugnant finality of life's last sputterings. But the fact is, death is not a confrontation. It is simply an event in the sequence of nature's ongoing rhythms.

I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?