Pleasure Principle 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

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

— 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

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

— Mignon McLaughlin

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

— Mignon McLaughlin

Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.

— Mignon McLaughlin

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

— Mignon McLaughlin

No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

— Mignon McLaughlin