Keith Ablow

“Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.”

— Keith Ablow

What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your…

— Keith Ablow

God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is…

— Keith Ablow

“Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children… it is…

— Keith Ablow

“I shook my head at all the things that can happen to break a man as he grows up and away from…

— Keith Ablow

The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

— Keith Ablow

“That's what a little victory in psychiatry looks like. You slip into the shadows, dodging the mind's defense mechanisms, glad enough to…

— Keith Ablow

I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.

— Keith Ablow

“The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.”

— Keith Ablow

“Like most of the connections that explain the pain in our hearts, he couldn't bring it to mind. He couldn't see the…

— Keith Ablow

Insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

— Keith Ablow

If you take the teachings of Jesus, whether you consider yourself saved or you don't, those teachings are pristine. They're wonderful guides…

— Keith Ablow

“Maybe learning to be human was about learning to live in pain, not trying to figure out how to live pain-free. (156)”

— Keith Ablow

For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when…

— Keith Ablow

Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it…

— Keith Ablow

“Woody Allen once said that 90 percent of life is about showing up. Ninety percent of healing people in psychological pain is…

— Keith Ablow

“You've got to think of every talent you have, every gift you could give the world around you. And you've got to…

— Keith Ablow

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

— Keith Ablow

...the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us…

— Keith Ablow

...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)

— Keith Ablow

“It is a terrible and exquisitely human irony that children inadequately nurtured almost never give up on the breast. The thirst for…

— Keith Ablow

People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

— Keith Ablow

I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

— Keith Ablow

Relationships are never chance events.

— Keith Ablow

“Everything terrible is something that needs our love. - Rilke (231)”

— Keith Ablow