Mignon McLaughlin: Trending quotes (page 6)

“At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

Love

“Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

Thinking , Past , Future

“An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Dead

“Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Love , Youth , Success

“If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

People , Fear , Change

“The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“Life's most painful condition: to be almost a celebrity.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Life , Pain

“Neurotics are sure that no one understands them, and they wouldn't have it any other way.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

Way , Understanding

“Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Feeling , Strong

“I often pray, though I’m not really sure Anyone’s listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He’s literary.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“I have seen messed-up people of forty who still seemed salvageable, and children of six or seven who almost surely were not.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Children , People

“One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“In every group of intimidated people, each thinks "I will rebel," but each waits for the others.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

People , Thinking , Waiting

“Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those changes that would make all the difference.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Depressing , Change

“If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

Love

“We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. People might not return it; or worse, they might.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Love

Love , People , Animals

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Neurotics and neurosis

“Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.”

Mignon McLaughlin

The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified