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Irvin Yalom

American existential psychiatrist and emeritus professor at Stanford University. Author of Love's Executioner (1989) and the novel When Nietzsche Wept (1992).

6 quotes

The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Irvin Yalompsychology
I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too much pleasure, takes too much pain.
Irvin Yalompsychology
Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
Irvin Yalompsychology
The capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the capacity to love.
Irvin Yalompsychology
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
Irvin Yalompsychology
To love means to open ourselves to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible.
Irvin Yalompsychology

The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too much pleasure, takes too much pain.

Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.

The capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the capacity to love.

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

To love means to open ourselves to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible.