Quotes by James Hillman

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? (James Hillman)

As Plotinus tells us, we elected the body, the parents, the place, and the circumstances that suited the soul and that, as the myth says, belongs to its necessity. (James Hillman)

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind. (James Hillman)

I don't want the demons taken away because they're going to take my angels too. (James Hillman)

I know my own deficiencies, one of which is that I had lived away from America for such a long time. Its called expatriate. (James Hillman)

Im cautious about a lot of words. (James Hillman)

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. (James Hillman)

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable. (James Hillman)

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

It's very hard to know what wisdom is. (James Hillman)