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Irvin D. Yalom Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 13, 1931

Topics

Life Death Terror Experienced Amount

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it.

Work Love Me Language Learn You

Here we were, the only seven humans in space, repairing a telescope whose only purpose is to enrich the minds of people on planet Earth and increase our understanding of the workings of the universe. I can think of no better peaceful use of space for all humankind.

John M. Grunsfeld

Purpose Space People Think Better

Football is a sport I have fun with, but I play it, and that's all. I never watch games and know nothing about what's going on in the sport.

Football Fun Have Fun Play Know

I hate mean people. People who just pick at you and try to force you into a train wreck.

Hate People You Train Try Mean

Indoor pools just don't seem as inviting to me.

Me Seem Just Inviting Pools Indoor

I don't know where 12 months has gone.

Know Gone Where Months

Inspiration comes from so many sources. Music, other fiction, the non-fiction I read, TV shows, films, news reports, people I know, stories I hear, misheard words or lyrics, dreams... Motivation? The memory of the rush I get from a really good writing session - even on a bad day, I know I'll find that again if I keep going.

Good Dreams Music Keep Going Day

I think when I was 12, when, like, 'Titanic' and 'Romeo + Juliet' came out, my friends and I made our own Leonardo DiCaprio fan club. I definitely had a thing for him.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Think Friends Him Club Out Own

I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older.

Michel de Montaigne

Truth Speak Grow Dare More Little

Even in fine-dining restaurants, you have people that say 'I want to be out in half hour', 'I want to be out in 45 minutes.' It happens.

People You Say Want Out Half

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.

Good Eyes Moment Song Problem You

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Freedom Action Genius Place Insight

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