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ak
from brooklyn
Thank you Dr. Sacks. Today the world is both a better place for all your compassion and wisdom and a much sadder place without you. Your gifts to us will live on forever. Peace for you and condolences for your loving community.
Martin Jöchlinger
from Vienna
Your Body is gone now, but you have spread your Inspirational thoughts around the World and it will grow and bring understanding of the Life of neurologically abnormal People.
I just finished "An Anthropologist On Mars" Yesterday and the Chapter with Temple Grandin still touches me.
Kyros Moutsouris
from London
With grief I learned about passing of Dr. O. Sacks.
His books have been an inspiration to me as a medical student. During the nineties while studying in Bologna Italy I read "an Anthropologist on Mars" it really help me understand the condition of my late brother Christos Moutsouris. My deepest condolences to his family.
jesus lara
from ubeda ( spain )
Gracias Mr. Oliver . No le olvidaré.
Tricia
from Sydney
VALE to a great man. May he live on through those he inspired and helped.
Trude
from Groningen, The Netherlands
Thank you so much and rest in peace, dear dr. Sacks.
Lyndsay Farlow
from Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
Farewell, you beautiful human.
Sara Ackerman
from Oakland
Dear Dr. Sacks,
I have been reading your books and essays for as long as I can remember. Your unique blend of compassion, humor and insight into human experience have become an essential element in my own personal periodic table. Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful journeys with the world. You will always be an inspiration to me, and I hope that avid readers like myself can continue to journey with you.
With affection and admiration,
Sara
Rod Dungan
from Göttingen, Germany
Dear Dr. Sacks,
Your writing about your experience with cancer in the NY Times moved me, and gave me strength in facing my own mortality. And I have read several of your books and immensely enjoyed them. You have used your own gifts wisely and become one.
Bravo! I raise my glass to you.
Rod Dungan
Elise Pressley
from Hoeilaart, Belgium
Dear Dr. Sacks,
Thank you so much for your work. Nowhere else have I found the same blend of science, art and literature, the same levels of compassion, humor and drive, the same devotion to, and interest in, other human beings. I started reading your work four years ago, when I was about fourteen, and will never forget the joy and impact of this discovery. The curious cases in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, your personal account in A Leg to Stand On, the patients in Awakenings, the sometimes hilarious anecdotes in your memoir, and more; I love them all. You have inspired and moved me more deeply than I can say. I’m looking forward to reading more of your books and essays—saddened as I am by your recent bad news.
Thank you.
HYE RI KIM
from SEOUL, KOREA
Dear Dr. Sacks
Earlier this year I heard your news through the article. I felt a deep sorrow. I read your book "The man who mistook his wife for a hat" in high school. From then on I felt a curiosity about that field. And I now have an interest in neuroscience and mind connection. I am learning psychology. Your article has had a very significant impact on the dream of my life. I just wanted to thank you for that.
Rowena Kitchen
from Lebanon, Oregon
Dear Dr. Sacks,
You have been in my thoughts frequently as you experience the end of your amazing life with such grace and dignity. May we all learn this from you. I am so grateful for your lifetime presence among us, sharing your knowledge, empathy and humor. May your approach to caring for people be learned and emulated by not just doctors.
I have read all your books except the one on Mexico, which I have on order, and just finished reading "Migraine". I thank you especially for your autobiography, which I enjoyed immensely.
I hope you remain aware of all the love and caring flowing your way at this time from your colleagues, patients and readers.
Thank you.
Rowena Kitchen
Anne Kerr
Dear Dr. Sacks,
Your books and articles have enriched my life. Tonight, as I was finishing Uncle Tungsten, you made me laugh out loud. The story of the smells of putrefied cuttlefish and coconut "in alternating zones about five or fix feet wide" was delightful.
Many thanks for your wide-ranging additions to the world's literature.
-- a devoted fan
Deepa
from Sachse
Dear Dr. Sacks,
I have never written a letter of appreciation to an author before, but I feel compelled to do so now. I've just finished listening to A Life and I was so moved by your openness and honesty. Your description of your current relationship especially touched me and I just wanted to say thank you and God bless you and give you strength and continued peace and love.
Ana Luiza Machado Paschoal
from São Paulo, Brazil
Dear Dr. Oliver Sacks,
I'm honored to write to you. My first contact with one of your studies was in the book Color in Art, by John Cage, which mentions your story about abstract painter Jonathan I., who continued to paint after an acccident that had destroyed his color vision consequently stimulating him to produce highly successful black and white paintings in New York. As an art artist and art teacher, everything that connects with art interests me.
Thank you,
Ana Luiza Paschoal
Cate Cutler
from Brooklyn, NY
Dearest Dr. Sacks,
I just wanted to take a second to say thank you for all of your writings and works. They have deeply affected me and I will forever be grateful. I have connected with you and your life on such a level that I cannot seem to recover. You follow me throughout my days and you're always in my heart. You have become a part of me and, for that, I am thankful.
With admiration,
Cate
Ted Wong
from Vancouver, BC, Canada
Thank you, Dr. Sacks, for the gift of your work and your writing. May you find peace and comfort in knowing you have touched and inspired so many lives.
With gratitude,
Ted
Debra Gooch
from Oakland
Dear Dr. Sacks,
Dr. Sagan said "we are made of star stuff." You are one of the brightest shining starry beings on this earth. Thank you for sharing your insights and your discoveries with the rest of us! It is through your inspiring writings that I have become more curious about the processes of the various body systems. I thank you for that! I am also grateful to you for your compassionate story telling and sharing of how people with autism or neurological conditions perceive the world. I feel so blessed to have had the good fortune of having read many of your books. It is through you I learned of Temple Grandin, another treasure.
I read your book On the Move with great joy. You really did live a full and authentic life full of love, kindness and compassion. Your books have helped me to become a better person, more aware of others. I thank you a million times and wish you a sweet soft journey through the starry light and energy in the universe. Wishing you peace and adventurous chemical dreams in your remaining days. I will never forget you.
Shar Walbaum
from Hamden
Dear Dr. Sacks,
As part of our Fechner Day celebration, my History of Psych students will be creating and presenting PowerPoint summaries of your case studies to our campus community. I want them to discover, and to show others, how you wove together science and history as ways of knowing. It seems fitting to link a celebration of a dream to your work. Thank you for teaching me, so beautifully, that brains are about minds but also about our humanity. I treasure your work. I wish you peace.
Shar
Anna Riedl
from Vienna
Dear Dr. Sacks,
Your books and work had tremendous influence on me and added regular awe and magic to my perception of the world.
When I heard of your terminal illness I felt grief and still decided to not bother you with a message, because I expected that too many people are writing you already.
Things changed when I read your short article "my periodic table". Touching thoughts I can relate to. And then. Surprise. Amazement. This year I decided to get a tattoo of the element lead for another reason (my grandfather worked in lead typesetting and there is this quote by Georg Lichtenstein in German, that says "More than the gold it was lead that changed the world. And more than lead used for guns it was lead used for type setting." It sounds more beautiful in German; I particularly like the idea of how spreading ideas can change the subjective world).
Reading your article caused goose bumps and tears of sadness and happiness. I am thankful to now be also reminded of you and your books - works of art.
I wish you to see such a sky again - and want to thank you with all my ... brain.
Anna
