Quote by 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 HELL”

— 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 the couch…

— 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' thoughts to…

— 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 motivated by…

— 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 year! And…

— 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 always creeps…

— 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 and sure-handedly…

— Irvin D. Yalom