Stephen Grosz quotes

“It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.”
-- Stephen Grosz

Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.83, W. W. Norton & Company

#Betrayed Quotes #Forgotten Quotes #Painful Quotes

“When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don’t understand.”
-- Stephen Grosz

Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

#Dream Quotes #Acting Quotes #Way Quotes

“Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.”
-- Stephen Grosz

Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.210, W. W. Norton & Company

#Grief Quotes #Closure Quotes #False Hope Quotes

“Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that someone is trying to think about us - something we want more than praise?”
-- Stephen Grosz

Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

#Children Quotes #Hard Work Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.”
-- Stephen Grosz

Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.157, W. W. Norton & Company

#Past Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Creating Quotes

“I want to change, but not if it means changing.”
-- Stephen Grosz

Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

#Mean Quotes #Want Quotes

“Silence never yet betrayed any one!”

“Sink me! Your taylors have betrayed you! T'wood serve you better to send THEM to Madam Guillotine”

“Animals have never betrayed me. They are an easy prey, as I have been throughout my career. So we feel the same. I love them.”

“Yes, definitely I do feel betrayed, but I've got to take everything that's happened and learn from it. I accept that that's a chapter of my life that's finished. And I've just got to be grateful that I've got so many good things going on. I have.”

“Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.”

“The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.”

“For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.”

Source : Anita Brookner (2012). “Look at Me”, p.9, Vintage

“That which is painful sharpens one's love.”

Source : Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.131, Anchor

“Even a painful longing is some form of presence.”

“While holding the eurozone together will be costly and difficult and painful for the politicians, breaking it up will be even more costly and more difficult,”