Irvin D. Yalom

“Mylėti moterį- tai nekęsti gyvenimo!”

— Irvin D. Yalom

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Dom nije mjesto - to je stanje svijesti.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

Mature love is loving, not being loved.

— Irvin D. Yalom

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

— Irvin D. Yalom

“We cannot avoid this responsibility, this freedom.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Knowledge is limited, only stupidity is unlimited.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

Living safely is dangerous.

— Irvin D. Yalom

“think of sex as the vital antagonist to death—isn’t the orgasm the primal spark of life? I”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“How much of life have I missed, he wondered, simply by failing to look? Or by looking and not seeing?”

— Irvin D. Yalom

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

— Irvin D. Yalom

“The obsession is a distraction; it protects you from thinking about something else,”

— Irvin D. Yalom

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

— Irvin D. Yalom

If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!

— Irvin D. Yalom

“One thing he resolved was not to make that one good year a bad year by grieving that it was not more…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“would you be willing to live this past year again and again for all eternity?”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“How disquieting to realise that reality is an illusion, at best a democratisation of perception based on participant consensus.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Some people are wish-blocked, knowing neither what they feel nor what they want. Without opinions, without impulses, without inclinations, they become parasites…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“As long as he denies his own agency, real change is unlikely because his attention will be directed toward changing his environment…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Were you really, truly, helpful to your patients? Maybe you've just learned to pick patients who were going to improve on their…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“People fear contact with the afflicted because they wish not to be confronted with the death that awaits each of them.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Rollo May quipped that anxiety about nothing tries to become anxiety about something. In other words, anxiety about nothingness quickly attaches itself…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Do not pander, patronize, scheme, or strategize,” his instincts told him. “Simply go about your business in your usual professional manner.” “But”

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Humans who are victims of that freakish twist of evolution that grants self-awareness but not the requisite psychological equipment to deal with…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“One’s efforts to escape isolation can sabotage one’s relationships with other people. Many a friendship or marriage has failed because, instead of…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Imajte na umu, upade Niče, da sam naslijedio izrazito senzibilan nervni sistem. To znam na osnovu duboke osjetljivosti na muziku i umjetnost.…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door. Mirroring, softly, barely…

— Irvin D. Yalom

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Religious beliefs are culture bound…land overwhelmed by poverty, overcrowding, starvation, disease, class oppression and lack of any hope for a better future…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“The life of our bodies is only a constantly prevented dying, an ever deferred death…Every breath we draw wards off death that…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“keep in mind that therapy is a deep and comprehensive exploration into the course and meaning of one’s life; given the centrality…

— Irvin D. Yalom

There was a time in our lives when we were so close that nothing seemed to obstruct our friendship and brotherhood, and…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Misanthropist’s manifesto: Do not tell a friend what your enemy ought not to know. Giving way neither to love nor hate is…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Existential isolation, a third given, refers to the unbridgeable gap between self and others, a gap that exists even in the presence…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“When, on a sea voyage, the ship is brought to anchor, you go out to fetch water and gather a few roots…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, a process Proust…

— Irvin D. Yalom

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

“Philosophy is a high mountain road…an isolated road and becomes even more desolate the higher we ascend. Whoever pursues this pass should…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Why, you may ask, take on this unpleasant, frightening subject? Why stare into the sun? Why not follow the advice of the…

— Irvin D. Yalom