Death Quote by Irvin D. Yalom Download Open image ““Heightened sexuality is a common response to confrontation with death.”” — Irvin D. Yalom ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Death
“Sexuality is more a symptom of your life's condition than a cause, more a consequence than an origin.” — Rosaria Champagne Butterfield Copy Share Image
“This is what death does. It forces intimacy at the same time it snatches it away.” — Kimberly Belle Copy Share Image
“Sexual pessimism: The equation of sexual love outside the prerequisites of reproduction with death.” — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
“We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration” — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
“They say that near-death experiences change people. That they suddenly discover what tolerance and love are really about. That they have no more use… — Jennifer Brown Copy Share Image
“Sexuality with all its attendant yearnings and pains, jealousies and taboos, is the most disturbing impulse humans have.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“I had entered that critical stage in a woman’s life – that place when emotion starved to death and the only two options left… — Shayne Silvers Copy Share Image
“because a surfeit of sexual activity at an early age was believed to lead to an early death.” — Sylvia Barbara Soberton Copy Share Image
“We're all whirling merrily through the void on a dying planet, and gay people are just doing their usual number, being shamelessly trendy as… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
“Wanting to die with a dead partner might not be a show of love but more of a show of dependency.” — Chidi Ejeagba Copy Share Image
When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. — Erich Fromm 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
“He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content,… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
With multiplayer, permanent death, and an ever-changing world to explore and conquer, 'A Valley Without Wind' might be the place you're looking for if… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“What did you see?” she asked gently. His brow furrowed, as if he could not understand the question. Then his eyes turned to the… — J. Anthony Torino Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“I practice Dying--every night-- But have not learned to, still-- Though Talented--by Mortal bones-- For such a common Skill.” — Alan W. Powers Copy Share Image
“You must understand the pain and grief of losing someone is nothing more than a function of survival.” — Steven Cooper Copy Share Image
I am not a depressive person at all, but I reflect a lot on my life, and life in general, from the perspective of… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
“Death is a reality that calls the rest of life and all of our assorted strivings into sharp relief.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
