Fear Quotes by Irvin D. Yalom

8 Fear quotes by Irvin D. Yalom

Yalom’s eight brief reflections bring a therapist’s eye to anxiety, offering a compact, insightful look at how fear shapes our inner narratives.

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

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“the flame of belief is fueled inexhaustibly by the fears of death, oblivion, and meaninglessness. Where”

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...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you…

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“Work, worry, toil and trouble are certainly the lot of almost all throughout their lives. But if all desires were fulfilled as…

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Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get another perspective…

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“come to believe that the fear of death is always greatest in those who feel that they have not lived their life…

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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book…

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

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“Beginning therapists must learn that there are times to sit in silence, sometimes in silent communion, sometimes simply while waiting for patients' thoughts to…

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

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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms. The drive for power is not uncommonly motivated by…

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“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…

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“Hope is the worst of evils because it protracts torment.” “Your”

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Mature love is loving, not being loved.

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Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps…

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“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…

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

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