25 quotes found
“To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.”
“The past influences everything and dictates nothing.”
“The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.”
“Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter.”
“However much you have been wanting and hoping and dreaming of meeting the person of your dreams, it is only when you meet them that you will start missing them. It seems that the presence of an obj...”
“Falling in love, finding your passion, are attempts to locate, to picture, to represent what you unconsciously feel frustrated about, and by.”
“Like the 'good' characters in literature, the sane don't have any memorable lines.”
“It is as if, oddly, you were waiting for someone but you didnt know who they were until they arrived. Whether or not you were aware that there was something missing in your life, you will be when y...”
“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.”
“The pleasure of kindness is that it connects us with others; but the terror of kindness is that it makes us too immediately aware of our own and other peoples vulnerabilities (vulnerabilities that ...”
“Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.”
“It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness is not something one can ask of a child. Children suffer in a way that adults don't always re...”
“All love stories are frustration stories To fall in love is to be reminded of a frustration that you didnt know you had (of ones formative frustrations, and of ones attempted self-cures for them); ...”
“It is the link between satisfaction and redress--the idea that a satisfaction scene, whatever else it is, is a revenge tragedy--that I want to pursue; and the sense that we waylay our desire--make ...”
“In Freuds story our possibilities for satisfaction depend upon our capacity for frustration; if we cant let ourselves feel our frustration and, surprisingly, this is a surprisingly difficult thing...”
“If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes good things to prefer but not always the things most wanted). The wish to be understood...”
“All love stories are frustration stories. As are all stories about parents and children, which are also love stories, in Freud's view, the formative love stories. To fall in love is to be reminded ...”
“Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.”
“It is as if, oddly, you were waiting for someone but you didn’t know who they were until they arrived. Whether or not you were aware that there was something missing in your life, you will be when ...”
“The pleasure of kindness is that it connects us with others; but the terror of kindness is that it makes us too immediately aware of our own and other people’s vulnerabilities (vulnerabilities that...”
