If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living! — Irvin D. Yalom 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
Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life! — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
If we look at life in its small details, how ridiculous it all seems. It is like a drop of water seen… — Irvin D. Yalom 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 Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Life can be compared to a piece of embroidered material of which, every-one in the first half of his time, comes to… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“The monuments, the ideas left behind by beings like me are my greatest pleasure in life. Without books I would long ago… — Irvin D. Yalom 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 Copy Share Image
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death. — 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
“Every breath we draw wards off the death that constantly impinges on us…. Ultimately death must triumph, for by birth it has… — Irvin D. Yalom 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 Copy Share Image
“Friendship between therapist and patients is a necessary condition in the process of therapy - necessary, but not, however, sufficient. Psychotherapy is… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we… — Irvin D. Yalom 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 Copy Share Image
To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another. — 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 Image
I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another. — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living! — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
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 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 year! And… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
