The amount of death terror experienced is closely ... -Irvin D. Yalom

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The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

Irvin D. Yalom , Psychologist
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I do not like to work with patients who are in love. Perhaps it is because of envy - I, too, crave enchantment. Perhaps it is because love and psychot...
The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived....
We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, ...
Therapists need to have a long experience in personal therapy to see what it's like to be on the other side of the couch and see what they find helpfu...
I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we...

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As long as you think of your real self as the person you are, then of course you're going to be fearful of death. But what is a person? A person is a ...
Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I ...
I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death....
I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God....
Jesus was loyal to his apostles, with full knowledge of their cowardice. He was loyal to the poor, accepting the criticism of the Pharisees, so the de...
If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is to live, our babies must live. Our mothers must choose life. If we refuse to answer the cry of mercy fr...
I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, '...
The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a...
I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry....
Of all the logical impasses, unknowings, paradoxes, and terrors that provoke laughter, death by its finality and unsolvable mystery is paramount....