Irvin D. Yalom said this quote

“ The greatest wisdom is to make the enjoyment of the present the supreme object of life because that is the only reality, all else being the play of thought. But it might as well be our greatest folly because that which exists only a moment and vanishes as a dream can never be worth a serious effort. ”

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Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

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!

~ Irvin D. Yalom

The spirit of a man is constructed out of his choices.

~ Irvin D. Yalom

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

~ Irvin D. Yalom