Shrink Quotes

261 Shrink quotes by 218 unique authors

But we had with us, to keep and to care for, more than five hundred bruised bodies of men- men made in the image of… — Joshua Chamberlain
Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To… — Milan Kundera
The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is… — Norman Mailer
If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have… — Daniel Dennett
You know what I figured out?" I hate this part." Dr. Martin leaned back in his chair. "It means I'm about to lose income or… — Gail Giles
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by… — Jacqueline Carey
You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more. — Oprah Winfrey
In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy. — Johnny Carson
Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century. Flags are bits of colored cloth that… — Arundhati Roy
Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom… — Glen Duncan
The world that was not mine yesterday now lies spread out at my feet, a splendor. I seem, in the middle of the night, to… — John Cheever
The ladies men admire, I've heard, Would shudder at a wicked word. Their candle gives a single light, They'd rather stay at home at night.… — Dorothy Parker
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion — Marcel Proust
I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater… — Toni Morrison
Sometimes, a flame can be utterly extinguished. Sometimes, a flame can shrink and waver, but sometimes a flame refuses to go out. It flares up… — Karen Hesse
God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life… — Ernest Becker
You're sad because you're sad. It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like… — Margaret Atwood
So, now I've been to see a drug counselor who told me I need to lay off the drugs and talk about my feelings, and… — Libba Bray
Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so. — George S. Patton

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