Sanjay Gupta Quotes

For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most transcendent experience of my life.

My experience, with both my parents, is that grief has a lot of down, sad things, but I was also really emotionally raw, in the first year after each of them passed. Flowers smelled more intensely, my relationships were hotter, and I was more willing to risk. I was going for it a lot more. I was 'unsober' and I wasn't playing by my rules.

My kids miss me when I'm away, but I don't mind living out of a suitcase. The U.K., U.S., France, Germany, Iraq... it's such a thrill meeting people of different cultures, learning about and from them. It's changed my perception about life, humanity and spirituality.

Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

I really look for peak experiences and dramatic material that can allow peak experiences.

Teenagers have more intense reading experiences because they've had fewer of them. It's like the first time you fall in love. You have a connection to that first person you fell in love with because it was so intense and unprecedented.

Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely.

My life has been extreme. Most people will not have the experience I've had. But the things that changed me, really changed me, they happen to everyone.

The area where we are the greatest is the area in which we inspire, encourage and connect with another human being.

The true artform is being a human being.

Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.

However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing.

There’s something insupportable about being pissed with the one person on this planet that sends your adrenaline flowing to remind you that you’re alive. It’s almost like we’re mad because we’ve been shocked out of our usual comatose state of being by feeling something for someone, for ourselves, for just a moment.

Sometimes the people we meet change us forever.

I am not sure that the discovery of love is necessarily more exquisite than the discovery of poetry.

I have drunk of the wine of life at last, I have known the thing best worth knowing, I have been warmed through and through, never to grow quite cold again till the end.

I like youth, and I like stories about feeling things intensely and about transitional moments in human life. I reflect on my life and that's just a moment when I felt things probably the most intensely.

First, before I'm an artist, before I'm a celebrity, I'm a human being.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.

Gee, I never thought I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.