I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love.… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Were not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive? My hunch is yes.… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“ALAS, IF ALL HUMANS WERE WISE AND HAD MORE GOOD WILL THE WORLD WOULD BE A PARADISE NOW IT IS MOSTLY A HELL” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
“Beginning therapists must learn that there are times to sit in silence, sometimes in silent communion, sometimes simply while waiting for patients' thoughts to… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living! — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
“Exactly. We know that the great Goethe carried a copy of Spinoza’s Ethics in his pocket for a year. Imagine that—an entire year! And… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
“Indeed, the capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the profession. Though the public may believe that therapists guide patients systematically and sure-handedly… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
“Rollo May quipped that anxiety about nothing tries to become anxiety about something. In other words, anxiety about nothingness quickly attaches itself to a… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
“I often urge patients to project themselves into the future and to consider how they can live now so that five years hence they… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share
