All Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
- Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living. Credo
- The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety. Anxiety
- If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain. Choice
- Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer Away Anything
- Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it. Look
- To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone. Alone
- Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us. Death
- Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning? Doe
- If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living! Dead
- Life as a therapist is a life of service in which we daily transcend our personal wishes and turn our gaze toward the needs and… Daily
- The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help. Accepted
- Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the… Awareness
- Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead… Alive
- Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97) Heal
- He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call.… Ago
- What? 'Borderline patients play games'? That what you said? Ernest, you'll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That's exactly what I… Behind
- A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves,… Absorbed
- The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines. Any
- I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and… Believe
- Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit. Enslave