Best quotes by Irvin D. Yalom on Life

Checkout quotes by Irvin D. Yalom on Life

• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ During my childhood, Washington was a segregated city, and I lived in the midst of a poor black neighborhood. Life on the streets was often perilous. Indoor reading was my refuge, and twice a week, I made the hazardous bicycle trek to the central library at Seventh and K streets to stock up on supplies.

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

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ 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