If we cannot heal in one way, we must learn to heal in another.

- Sherwin B. Nuland

A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity …

- Sherwin B. Nuland

For aging is an art. The years between its first intimations and the time of the ultimate letting go of all earthly things can-if the readiness and r…

- Sherwin B. Nuland

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

- Sherwin B. Nuland

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

- Sherwin B. Nuland

To become comfortable with uncertainty is one of the primary goals in the training of a physician.

- Sherwin B. Nuland

Where the despair of loneliness and poverty haunts every hour, the optimism to embark on new projects cannot find a place to alight on the brains cor…

- Sherwin B. Nuland

The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently a series of…

- Sherwin B. Nuland

The dignity we seek in dying is not to be found in our final weeks, days or moments but in the way we live and how we are seen by those people whose …

- Sherwin B. Nuland