Love Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

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

Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

— Mignon McLaughlin

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

— Mignon McLaughlin

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

— 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

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would…

— Mignon McLaughlin

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Women are never landlocked: they're always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Those who are brutally honest are seldom so with themselves.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Despair is anger with no place to go.

— Mignon McLaughlin