Unresolved Conflicts Quotes

You think everything can be magically cured with vitamins?” “Everything but us.

Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

We are born haunted, he said, his voice weak, but still clear. Haunted by our fathers and mothers and daughters, and by people we don't remember. We are haunted by otherness, by the path not taken, by the life unlived. We are haunted by the changing winds and the ebbing tides of history. And even as our own flame burns brightest, we are haunted by the embers of the first dying fire. But mostly, said Lord Jim, we are haunted by ourselves.

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

Most government officials are rushing headlong to solve the problems of 50 years ago, with their ears assailed by the sound of snails whizzing by.

Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.

About what we neither know nor feel precisely while awake-whether we have a good or a bad conscience toward a certain person-our dreams instruct us fully and unambiguously.

Marriage doesn't create problems. It reveals them. You bring unresolved stuff into it.

Families and their problems go on and on, and they aren't solved, they're dealt with.

An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.

Festering political problems do not go away simply because they are kept in a dark corner.

There had to be a reason why they were not going to marry. They had both been so adamant about it. What the devil was the reason?

It's not just lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from-it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.

Men always have their reasons. But the fact is that they always wind up leaving.

I think it's the things we don't talk about that make us old before out time.

We need space to discuss unspoken, uncomfortable dark truths.

Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.

My resistance to communication work is because of 15 years with my former wife where we did all this work, but we never got to the core of anything.

Most marriage failures are caused by failures marrying.

every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

For teenage kids, they feel a pressure to sweep things under the rug because they feel like they're not important enough to have problems.