Quotes by : Irvin D. Yalom

The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is....

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

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

Translation error is compounded by bias error. We distort others by forcing into them our preferred ideas....

Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish. Your....

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

Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when....

I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn....

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.

That just seems to be the way we’re built.