Quotes by Christiaan Barnard

• I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.
• The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.
• Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
• On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.
• It is infinitely better to transplant a heart than to bury it to be devoured by worms.