Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

The freedom of an unscheduled afternoon brought confusion rather than joy. Julius had always been focused. When he was not seeing patients, other important projects and activities-writing, teaching, t...

It has often been noted that three major revolutions in thought have threatened the idea of human centrality. First, Copernicus demonstrated that Earth was not the center about which all celestial bod...

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Irvin David Yalom (; born June 13, 1931) is an American existential psychiatrist who is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Stanford University, as well as author of both fiction and nonfiction.

Someone's got to do some more research, but I would really like to know: when a CBT therapist really gets distressed, who does he go see?

Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas and gestalts, a process Proust beautifully describes: We pack the physical outline of the crea...

Ο Μπρόιερ προσπάθησε να αποτινάξει το θάνατο απ' το μυαλό του. Μουρμούρισε το αγαπημένο του ξόρκι, τη φράση του Λουκρητίου: «Όπου είναι ο θάνατος, εγώ δεν είμαι. Όπου είμαι εγώ, ο θάνατος δεν είναι. Γ...

I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life. I don’t want to be just another patient. I wanted to be special. I want to be something, anything....

[…] dat er een basisindeling is in de wegen van de mens: zij die gemoedsrust en geluk verlangen moeten geloven en het geloof omarmen, terwijl zij die de waarheid willen zoeken van gemoedsrust moeten a...

İnsan dostunu düşmanından daha zor affediyor.

How shall we live? How to face our mortality? How to live with the knowledge that we are simply life forms, thrown into an indifferent universe, with no preordained purpose?

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

As a general rule, the less one’s sense of life fulfillment, the greater one’s death anxiety.

Will that which is necessary and then to love that which is willed.

The last gift a parent can give to children is to teach them, through example, how to face death with equanimity.

Παρόλο που η ψευδαίσθηση συχνά αναπτερώνει και ανακουφίζει, στο τέλος πάντα αδυνατίζει και περιορίζει την ψυχή.

Humans who are victims of that freakish twist of evolution that grants self-awareness but not the requisite psychological equipment to deal with the pain of transient existence. And so throughout the...

Toda mi vida se ha convertido en un viaje y empiezo a creer que mi único hogar, el único lugar familiar al que siempre regreso, es mi enfermedad.

Nadajduiesc la o lume viitoare fara religii, o lume cu o religie universala, in care toata lumea isi foloseste ratiunea pentru a-l cunoaste si a-l slavi pe Dumnezeu. -Asta inseamna ca doresti disparit...

People need people - for initial and continued survival, for socialization, for the pursuit of satisfaction. No one - not the dying, not the outcast, not the mighty - transcends the need for human con...

Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?

آنکه زندگی نمی‌کند، بیش از همه از مرگ می‌هراسد.