Irvin D. Yalom Life Quotations

I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.

Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.

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

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living.

A sense of life meaning ensues but cannot be deliberately pursued: life meaning is always a derivative phenomenon that materializes when we have transcended ourselves, when we have forgotten ourselves and become absorbed in someone (or something) outside ourselves

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.