Quotes by Keith Ablow

Keith Ablow

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

Giving

Hurt

People

…the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)

Facts

People

Warning

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

Husband

Jealous

Ugly Things

Because depression is so thematically powerful and so dark, when it’s very severe, it can make people feel not only as if they’ve lost a loving connection, but as if the whole world is devoid of love. So if we wonder how somebody could take 149 people with him when he commits suicide, one answer can be that depression, when it’s most severe, can make people feel that life is completely without value, not just for them but for anyone.

Life

Love

Suicide

But insight doesn’t necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

Produce

Self

Sometimes

But that’s the hardest part of healing.’ What?’ Realizing there’s no one to hate.

Hate

Healing

Realizing

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

Deep Down

Want

For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It’s supposed to. (46)

Easy

Exit

Hurt

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)

Dark

Like Love

Pain

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children… it is the reason that one human being’s intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

Children

Empathy

Hurt

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Answers

Buttons

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Children

Church

Cocaine

Core

Dark

Deep Down

Different

Drug

Easy

Empathy

Events

Evil

Exit

Facts

Father

Fear

Finding Yourself

Get Better

Giving

Guilty

Guts

Guy

Hate

Healing

Hell

Holes

Hurt

Husband

Irrational

Jealous

Jesus

Knowing

Levels

Life

Like Love

Littles

Love

Men

Might

Mother

Okay

Pain

People

Persons

Privacy

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Quotes by Keith Ablow

Keith Ablow

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

…the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)

A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

But insight doesn’t necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

But that’s the hardest part of healing.’ What?’ Realizing there’s no one to hate.

Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It’s supposed to. (46)

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)

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children… it is the reason that one human being’s intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

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