When I'm in a couple, I feel I'm disappearing, dying - losing my mind.

It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.

Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don’t understand.

I want to change, but not if it means changing.

A lot of people, especially psychoanalysts, assume that happiness can only be found in a couple - but not all of us are made for a relationship.

we all try to silence painful emotions. but when we succeed in feeling nothing we lose the only means we have of knowing what hurts us and why.

The bigger the front, the bigger the back.

For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you.

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.

The student asked the master, “Teacher, what should I do to become great?”the master replied:Succeed where others have failed.

The only rule is don't be boring and dress cute wherever you go. Life is too short to blend in.

When we focus on others, our world expands.

The final evaluation of a play has nothing to do with immediate audience or critical response.

A tree nowhere offers a straight line or a regular curve, but who doubts that root, trunk, boughs, and leaves embody geometry?

The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.