Richard Selzer Quote

A man does not know whose hands will stroke from him the last bubbles of his life. That alone should make him kinder to strangers.


Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery (1976)


A man does not know whose hands will stroke from him the last bubbles of his life. That alone should make him kinder to strangers.

A man does not know whose hands will stroke from him the last bubbles of his life. That alone should make him kinder to strangers.

A man does not know whose hands will stroke from him the last bubbles of his life. That alone should make him kinder to strangers.

A man does not know whose hands will stroke from him the last bubbles of his life. That alone should make him kinder to strangers.