Denial Quotes

“Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.”
― Keith Ablow, Denial

“But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.”
― Keith Ablow, Denial

“People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.”
― Keith Ablow, Denial

“My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.”
― Keith Ablow, Denial

“We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.”
― Keith Ablow, Denial

“Relationships are never chance events.”
― Keith Ablow, Denial

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

“But that's the hardest part of healing.'
What?'
Realizing there's no one to hate.”
― Keith Ablow, Denial

“The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.”
― Keith Ablow, Denial

“God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)”
― Keith Ablow, Denial

“Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.”
― Keith Ablow, Denial

“I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.”
― Keith Ablow, Denial

“The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.'
That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.”
― Keith Ablow, Denial

“Everything terrible is something that needs our love. - Rilke (231)”
― Keith Ablow, Denial

“God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.”
― Keith Ablow, Denial