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,….

Living safely is dangerous..

Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!.

...the more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety. The more you fail to experience your life fully, the more you will fear death..

Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortali….

In a study we did of bereavement, we found that rather impressive numbers of widows and widowers had not simply gone back to their pre-loss functioni….

Life is a miserable thing. I have decided to spend my life thinking about it..

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand..

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….

Never take away anything if you have nothing better to offer.

To care of another individual means to know and to experience the other as fully as possible..

A curious thought experiment. . . Nietzsche's message to us was to live life in such a way that we would be willing to repeat the same life eternally.

Love is not just a passion spark between two people; there is infinite difference between falling in love and standing in love. Rather, love is a way….

Perhaps the single most important therapeutic credo that I have is that the unexamined life is not worth living..

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

If one is to love oneself one must behave in ways that one can admire..

If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I'd like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting..

Death cures psychoneurosis. In a sense all these neurotic concerns--fear of rejection, interpersonal concerns--seem to melt away, and people get anot….

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 ….

Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps ….

The death anxiety of many people is fueled ... by disappointment at never having fulfilled their potential. Many people are in despair because their ….