“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
“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 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 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
It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you… — 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
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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Live when you live! Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life! If one does not live… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I simply remind patients that sooner or later they will have to relinquish the goal of having a better past.” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“The idea of using current distortions to re-create the past was part of an old, now abandoned, vision of the therapist as… — 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
