If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
Irvin D. YalomTags: perspective tragedy
The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.
Irvin D. YalomTags: life choice human-nature
Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
Irvin D. YalomTags: marriage jealousy possession enslavement
Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
Irvin D. YalomIt is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
Irvin D. YalomTags: life future children immortality antinatalism procreation
Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
Irvin D. YalomTags: truth
Herkes aynı yemeği yemekten bıkar. Her güzel kadının olduğu yerde, bir de onu düzmekten bıkmış zavallı bir erkek vardır!
Irvin D. YalomTags: nietzsche kadın irvin-yalom
A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally
Irvin D. YalomSterven is echter de eenzaamste gebeurtenis van het leven. We worden er niet alleen door van anderen afgescheiden, maar daarnaast stelt het ons ook bloot aan een nog angstaanjagender vorm van eenzaamheid: het is een scheiding van de wereld zelf.
Irvin D. YalomTags: dying
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
Irvin D. YalomTags: psychology grief counseling death-anxiety staring-at-the-sun
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