In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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 Image
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
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 Image
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
