Unresolved Conflict Quotes

To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.

The most fatal of all neutralities is that which results not from choice, but from irresolution.

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.

For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.

I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.

It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.

Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself as therapy.

My father was frightened of his mother; I was frightened of my father, and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.

Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

My relationship with my father still troubles me because it never got resolved, and there was no closure. There was a lot of bitterness, but having written about it, I found that I was able to overcome that bitterness and look at the relationship anew.

Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.

I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

All along, I've been writing about our fears, our longings, our fantasies, our ambivalences. When I decided to study psychoanalysis, I did it because I wanted to understand the psychodynamics of it all. Though far from perfect, psychoanalysis offered me a huge, wonderful window on all that.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

My father and mother were not that compatible. I don't think they had a good wedding night, and I was the product of that. We weren't close.

'One Day' is definitely heartbreaking in a few ways, but one of the main ways is that my character and Jim Sturgess's character are just people from two different worlds who love each other in so many ways and can't quite seem to get it together.

I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced because the husband believed that nobody ought to read while he was talking and the wife that nobody ought to talk while she was reading.

My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

Leaving 'GH' was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know how to say: 'I'm lonely, in pain, frightened' - distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child's world: the parent.