Love Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

— Mignon McLaughlin

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Whether or not you love television, you've got to admit that it certainly loves itself.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God…

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

— Mignon McLaughlin

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

— Mignon McLaughlin

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

— Mignon McLaughlin

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he…

— Mignon McLaughlin

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Despair is anger with no place to go.

— Mignon McLaughlin

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!

— Mignon McLaughlin

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions…

— Mignon McLaughlin

We can never at any time absorb more love than we're ready for.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.

— Mignon McLaughlin

When hope is hungry, everything feeds it

— Mignon McLaughlin

There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

— Mignon McLaughlin

So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If I knew why I worried so much, I wouldn't worry.

— Mignon McLaughlin