KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Irvin D. Yalom Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Irvin D. Yalom

Showing 11-19 of 19 Quotes by Irvin D. Yalom

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.

~Irvin D. Yalom

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.

~Irvin D. Yalom

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.

~Irvin D. Yalom

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.

~Irvin D. Yalom

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.

~Irvin D. Yalom

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.

~Irvin D. Yalom

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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 are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.

~Irvin D. Yalom

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.

~Irvin D. Yalom

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.

~Irvin D. Yalom

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Psychologist

Born: June 13th, 1931

Links

Find Irvin D. Yalom on Amazon

Related Authors

Wayne Dyer
Albert Ellis
Erich Fromm
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Abraham Maslow
Virginia Satir
B. F. Skinner
Thomas Szasz

Popular Authors

John Adams Napoleon Bonaparte Joyce Brothers Bill Burr Johnny Cash Edgar Allan Poe George Bernard Shaw Frank Sinatra

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Computers Experience God Love Memorial Day Religion Sports Thanksgiving