Quotes By James Hillman

It's important to ask yourself, How am I useful to others? What do people want from me? That may very well reveal what you are here for.

The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It's astounding. Maybe they can't see or they can't hear, but they walk out into the street and take life as it comes. They're models of courage, in a strange way.

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. It's called expatriate.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Too many people have been analyzing their pasts, their childhoods, their memories, their parents, and realizing that it doesn't do anything-or that it doesn't do enough.

In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

Loss means losing what was We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it.

Remember that in the early days of the feminist movement, they refused to have a leader; different women would just stand up and speak. The early feminists were very careful to not put what was spontaneously arising back in the old bottle.

The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?

When they talk about family values, it's in a repressive way, as if our American tradition were only the Puritan tradition or the 19th century oppressive tradition. The Christian tradition.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?