Hamza Alam > Hamza's Quotes

“Remember two matters and forget two matters: remember Allah and death; forget any good you have done to another and any evil that was done to you by another.”
― B.B. Abdulla, Timeless Seeds of Advice: The Sayings of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ , Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn al-Qayyim, Ibn al-Jawzi and Other Prominent Scholars in Bringing Comfort and Hope to the Soul

“The famous French writer Voltaire said that ‘the art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease’.”
― Benjamin Daniels, Further Confessions of a GP

“We are incredibly and uniquely designed with capabilities and qualities that only a Master Designer could have envisioned and incorporated into the molecular blueprint of our DNA.”
― J. Thomas Grant, The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

“There simply is no more room. And still the patients come. We are drowning. I stand at the desk, taking a breather. My head is pounding because of the noise. I cannot drink any more coffee or move any faster. I am fried. This is my sixth twelve-hour shift in a row. Sometimes I am not sure how much longer I can do this job before I just tear apart at the seams from stress.”
― Philip Allen Green, Trauma Room Two

“Sad stories make good books,”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies”
― Lisa Genova, Still Alice