“The obsession is a distraction; it protects you from thinking about something else,” — Irvin D. Yalom Distraction Copy Share Image
Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning? — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living! — Irvin D. Yalom Education Copy Share Image
“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 Grieving Copy Share Image
“think of sex as the vital antagonist to death—isn’t the orgasm the primal spark of life? I” — Irvin D. Yalom Life Copy Share Image
“How much of life have I missed, he wondered, simply by failing to look? Or by looking and not seeing?” — Irvin D. Yalom Life Copy Share Image
The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. — Irvin D. Yalom Anxiety Copy Share Image
Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“But you, like me, have good eyes. You looked too far into life. You saw that it was futile to reach wrong… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Should we not create—should we not become—before we reproduce? Our responsibility to life is to create the higher, not to reproduce the… — Irvin D. Yalom Life Copy Share Image
“Beginning therapists must learn that there are times to sit in silence, sometimes in silent communion, sometimes simply while waiting for patients'… — Irvin D. Yalom Psychotherapy Copy Share Image
Live right, he reminded himself, and have faith that good things will flow from you even if you never learn of them. — Irvin D. Yalom Faith Copy Share Image
“…It seems impossible to overestimate their capacity for irrationality. Somewhere in this world, with every blink of the eye, a fool is… — Irvin D. Yalom Irrationality Copy Share Image
“I often urge patients to project themselves into the future and to consider how they can live now so that five years… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
You will search the world over and not find a nonsuperstitious community. As long as there is ignorance, there will be adherence… — Irvin D. Yalom Adherence Copy Share Image
“Thought training and behavior shaping! These methods are not for the human realm! Ach, we’re not animal trainers!” “Yes,” — Irvin D. Yalom Animal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Better future Copy Share Image
“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 Evolution Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Friendship Copy Share Image
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 Conflict Copy Share Image
“I have no intention to get married because it would only cause me worries. And why would that be the case? I… — Irvin D. Yalom Marriage Copy Share Image
“There is one true property of romantic love: it never stays - evanescence is a part of the nature of an infatuated… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Exactly. We know that the great Goethe carried a copy of Spinoza’s Ethics in his pocket for a year. Imagine that—an entire… — Irvin D. Yalom Books Copy Share Image
“A great many of our patients have conflicts in the realm of intimacy, and obtain help in therapy sheerly through experiencing an… — Irvin D. Yalom Great man Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the profession. Though the public may believe that therapists guide patients systematically… — Irvin D. Yalom Doubt Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
You know, I think everybody I've seen has come from some other therapy, and almost invariably it's very much the same thing:… — Irvin D. Yalom Aloof Copy Share Image
“We humans appear to be meaning-seeking creatures who have had the misfortune of being thrown into a world devoid of intrinsic meaning.… — Irvin D. Yalom Life Copy Share Image
“Work, worry, toil and trouble are certainly the lot of almost all throughout their lives. But if all desires were fulfilled as… — Irvin D. Yalom Boredom Copy Share Image
“The power and omnipresence of the sexual drive: Next to the love of life it shows itself here as the strongest and… — Irvin D. Yalom Life Copy Share Image
“Right, that's exactly what I mean by your being both the prisoner and the jailer.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“the flame of belief is fueled inexhaustibly by the fears of death, oblivion, and meaninglessness. Where” — Irvin D. Yalom Death Copy Share Image
“love obsession often serves as a distraction, keeping the individual’s gaze from more painful thoughts.” — Irvin D. Yalom Distraction Copy Share Image
When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Heightened sexuality is a common response to confrontation with death.” — Irvin D. Yalom Death Copy Share Image
If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
