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Famous Irvin D. Yalom Quotes
“The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.”
“Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.”
“If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.”
“Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.”
“Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.”
“... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.”
“To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.”
“To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.”
“The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.”
“I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.”
“If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.”
“Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer”
“Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.”
“To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.”
“Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.”
“Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?”
“If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!”