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

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

- 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

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 greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope that we can all achieve, and it is the …

- Sherwin B. Nuland