Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

"Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?"

Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

"I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life. I don’t want to be “just another patient”. I wanted to be “special”. I want to be something, anything. I feel like nothing, no one. If I left an imprint on your life, maybe I would be someone, someone you wouldn’t forget. I’d exist then. (Marge’s letter to Yalom)"

Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

"That just seems to be the way we’re built."

Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

"The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines."

Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy