Irvin D. Yalom

“ALAS, IF ALL HUMANS WERE WISE AND HAD MORE GOOD WILL THE WORLD WOULD BE A PARADISE NOW IT IS MOSTLY A…

— Irvin D. Yalom

I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Ümitsizlik özfarkındalık uğruna ödenen bedeldir.”

— Irvin D. Yalom

Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“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

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

— Irvin D. Yalom

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

— Irvin D. Yalom

“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

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

— Irvin D. Yalom

Mature love is loving, not being loved.

— Irvin D. Yalom

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

— Irvin D. Yalom

“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

“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

“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

When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.

— Irvin D. Yalom

If I'm among men who don't agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them…

— 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

“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

“There is one true property of romantic love: it never stays - evanescence is a part of the nature of an infatuated…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Ubijeđen sam da su, u tim zanosima prvih susreta, Dan i žena pogrešno tumačili ono što u vidjeli jedno u drugom. Svako…

— Irvin D. Yalom

I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your greatest instrument is you, yourself,…

— Irvin D. Yalom

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Emotion has the power to obscure and falsify knowledge: that the whole world assumes a smiling aspect when we have reason to…

— Irvin D. Yalom

“Thought training and behavior shaping! These methods are not for the human realm! Ach, we’re not animal trainers!” “Yes,”

— Irvin D. Yalom