Adam Phillips Quotes
Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs
Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
The past influences everything and dictates nothing.
People change, but there really are limits. One thing you discover in psychoanalytic treatment is the limits of what you can change about yourself or your life. We are children for a very long time.
Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.
The vocabulary of one’s self-criticism is so impoverished and clichéd. We are at our most stupid in our self-hatred.
Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.
There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage
The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access
Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.
Falling in love, finding your passion, are attempts to locate, to picture, to represent what you unconsciously feel frustrated about, and by.
Just as there are phantom limbs there are phantom histories, histories that are severed and discarded, but linger on as thwarted possibilities an compelling nostalgias.
