Rollo May Quotes


What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.


Citations

May, Rollo. The Courage to Create. W. W. Norton & Company, 1975, p. 3.

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Rollo May
Rollo May
  • Born: April 21, 1909
  • Died: October 22, 1994
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Psychologist, Author

Rollo Reece May (April 21, 1909 – October 22, 1994) was an American existential psychologist and author of the influential book Love and Will (1969). He is often associated with humanistic psychology and existentialist philosophy, and alongside Viktor Frankl, was a major proponent of existential psychotherapy. The philosopher and theologian Paul Tillich was a close friend who had a significant influence on his work.