Character Quote by James Hillman

“Each life is formed by its unique image, an image that is the essence of that life and calls it to a destiny. As…

— James Hillman

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

— James Hillman

It's a terrible cruelty of predatory capitalism: both parents now have to work. A family has to have two incomes in order to buy…

— James Hillman

You know, people come to therapy really for a blessing. Not so much to fix what's broken, but to get what's broken blessed.

— James Hillman

Until the culture recognizes the legitimacy of growing down, each person in the culture struggles blindly to make sense of the darkness that the…

— James Hillman

“The first way has been excellently presented by David Holt in his lecture on “Jung and Marx.” [1] There Holt shows that Jung imagined his…

— James Hillman

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

— James Hillman

There is more in a human life than our theories of it allow. Sooner or later something seems to call us onto a particular…

— James Hillman

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

— James Hillman

The idea of death robs inquiry of its passionate vitality and empties our efforts of their purpose by coming to one predestined conclusion, death.…

— James Hillman

I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape.…

— James Hillman

In the past, friendship was a huge thing. But it's hard for us to think of friendship as a calling, because it's not a…

— James Hillman