Abraham Verghese: Quotes about life

Abraham Verghese is Physician, teacher, novelist. Explore interesting quotes on life.
Abraham Verghese: 40 quotes2 likes

“Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

“Make something beautiful of your life.”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

“Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

Variant: You live it forward, but understand it backward.
Source: Cutting for Stone

“We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

“Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone