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Many people are in despair because their dreams didn’t come true, and they despair even more that they did not make them come true.

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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you’ll always find despair.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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The path to decision may be hard because it leads into the territory of both finiteness and groundlessness—domains soaked in anxiety.
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Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer
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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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If people in their 20s had more death awareness, would that in fact temper their ambition or drive?
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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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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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I think we ripple on into others, just like a stone puts its ripples into a brook. That, for me, too, is a source of comfort. It kind of, in a sense, negates the sense of total oblivion.
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It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one’s germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness!
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Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door.
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One reason patients are reluctant to work in a therapy group is they fear that things will go too far, that the powerful therapist or the collective group might coerce them to lose control–to say or think or feel things that will be catastrophic.
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Some piece of ourselves, not necessarily our consciousness, but some piece of ourselves gets passed on and on and on.
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Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
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We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.
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Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don’t leave any unlived life behind.
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What? ‘Borderline patients play games’? That what you said? Ernest, you’ll never be a real therapist if you think like that. That’s exactly what I meant earlier when I talked about the dangers of diagnosis.
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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death.
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Psychiatry is a strange field because, unlike any other field of medicine, you never really finish.
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The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.
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