Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
IRVIN D. YALOMIf I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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If you want to choose the pleasure of growth, prepare yourself for some pain.
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If I’m among men who don’t agree at all with my nature, I will hardly be able to accommodate myself to them without greatly changing myself.
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Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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Specialness as a primary mode of death transcendence takes a number of other maladaptive forms.
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Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it.
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…the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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I never want to take away something when I don’t have anything better to offer him in a way.
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Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
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Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning?
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I think my quarry is illusion. I war against magic. I believe that, though illusion often cheers and comforts, it ultimately and invariably weakens and constricts the spirit.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future.
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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.
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He had learned long ago that, in general, the easier it was for anxious patients to reach him, the less likely they were to call. (107)
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