Life Quotes Quote by Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“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!”

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

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

“It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.”

“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.”

“Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.”

“You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”

“I've heard that people stand in bad situations because a relationship like that gets turned up by degrees. It is said that a frog will jump out of a pot of boiling water. Place him in a pot and turn it up a little at a time, and he will stay until he is boiled to death. Us frogs understand this.”

““To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,”