Nick

“Marriage should be no prison, but a garden in which something higher is cultivated.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept

“If we cannot embrace our own aloneness, we will simply use the other as a shield against isolation. Only”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession

“To build children you must first be built yourself. Otherwise, you’ll seek children out of animal needs, or loneliness, or to patch the holes in yourself. Your task as a parent is to produce not another self, another Josef, but something higher. It’s to produce a creator.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel Of Obsession