Famous Abraham Verghese Quotes

  • The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not. – Abraham Verghese

    The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.– Abraham Verghese

  • To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive. – Abraham Verghese

    To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.– Abraham Verghese

  • Do they li – Abraham Verghese

    Do they li– Abraham Verghese

  • No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son. – Abraham Verghese

    No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.– Abraham Verghese

  • The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole. – Abraham Verghese

    The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.– Abraham Verghese

  • …a world where a sparrow’s fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat’s eye, such is the true measure of time. – Abraham Verghese

    …a world where a sparrow’s fate and that of a man can be decided in the blink of a cat’s eye, such is the true measure of time.– Abraham Verghese

  • When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious. – Abraham Verghese

    When a man is a mystery to himself you can hardly call him mysterious.– Abraham Verghese

  • … telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology. – Abraham Verghese

    … telling herself stories about herself in a singsong voice, creating her own mythology.– Abraham Verghese

  • There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed- – Abraham Verghese

    There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed-– Abraham Verghese

  • Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief. – Abraham Verghese

    Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.– Abraham Verghese