Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that old person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?Irvin D. Yalom
The capacity to tolerate uncertainty is very potently associated with creativity.Irvin D. Yalom
We are all fellow travelers in a process of perpetual becoming.Irvin D. Yalom
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.Irvin D. Yalom
In our relationships, how much can we let ourselves need someone?Irvin D. Yalom
Loving someone can give us the greatest joy we can ever know but it can also hurt us more than we can believe. If we want to love, we must also learn to deal with the pain. Because love leaves a markIrvin D. Yalom
Cruelty begets its offspring-war, and war begets its own brood - loneliness, despair, and depression.Irvin D. Yalom
The inability to tolerate ambiguity is the root cause for all that's wrong in the world.Irvin D. Yalom
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim.Irvin D. Yalom
Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments.Irvin D. Yalom