Clinical Literature Quotes

#1. Maternal absence, in one form or another, is always found in the background of the incest romance. Womens literature on incest generally treats the theme of maternal absence tragically. Mens literature trivializes it or treats it comically. And clinical literature tends to treat it judgmentally.

Judith Lewis Herman

#2. I'm afraid I take ... this rather clinical view of love: it's saving you from madness. I'm not so enthusiastic as other poets have been.

William Empson

#3. The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus.

Timothy Keller

#4. If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.

Ouida

#5. I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.

Charles Fort

#6. She said it all mine and he smiled and said it all your's except you.

Archna Mohan

#7. Golden bridge, silver bridge or diamond bridge; it doesn't matter! As long as the bridge takes you across the other side, it is a good bridge!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#8. It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

Mark Twain

#9. People take power trips at the most inopportune times.

Lida Sideris

#10. The director said he's got a haunted soul and a natural sweetness.

Miriam Toews

#11. When I love, I love: wholly, thoroughly, completely, drowning in everything. Every glance can be a conversation, eyes just playing and saying what needs to be said. Silence is loud, and the air becomes heavy. I want you. I want all of you.

Warsan Shire