Stephen Grosz Quotes

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.

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