My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Those who turn to God for comfort may find comfort but I do not think they will find God. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share
