Quotes by Irvin D. Yalom

Irvin D. Yalom

…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

Anxiety

Failing

Fear Of Death

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, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves

Derivatives

Forgotten

Meaning Of Life

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

Fate

Power

Stars

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

Anxiety

Mother

Way

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.

Despair

Looks

Self

Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.

Anxiety

Death

Mind

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. (107)

Easier

Long Ago

Patient

Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world. And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.

Everyday

Way

World

I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort. I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.

Comfort

Offering

Views

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

Dream

People

Two

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Accepted

Anxiety

Believe

Cheer

Comfort

Creative

Curiosity

Death

Decision

Derivatives

Despair

Disappointment

Discipline

Doors

Dream

Easier

Everyday

Existential

Failing

Falling In Love

Fate

Fear Of Death

Feelings

Flow

Forever

Forgotten

Good Things

Greater

Growth

Have Faith

Heal

Healer

Height

Helping

Hunting

Important

Issues

Laughing

Long Ago

Looks

Love Is

Love Means

Mature

Mature Love

May

Mean

Meaning Of Life

Medicine

Might

Mind

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Quotes by Irvin D. Yalom

Irvin D. Yalom

…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.

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, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in–the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.

Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.

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. (107)

Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world. And if you do the latter, you’re not so worried about the everyday trivialities of life, for example, petty concerns about secrecy or privacy.

I don’t let any personal views about religion cause me to want to take away something that’s offering the patient comfort. I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.

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

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