Gilbertyourtown Quotes & Sayings

Not knowing trauma or experiencing or remembering it in a dissociative way is not a passive shutdown of perception or of memory. Not knowing is rather an active, persistent, violent refusal; an erasure, a destruction of form and of representation. The fundamental essence of the death instinct, the instinct that destroys all psychic structure is apparent in this phenomenon. . . . The death drive is against knowing and against the developing of knowledge and elaborating [it]. — Dori Laub

What happens at 50, more or less, you lose what you need to create another person, to sustain another person; you keep what you need to sustain yourself. And there's something wonderful about that. — Gloria Steinem

Gerard feels stabbing love for his daughter. — Simon Van Booy

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. — Aristotle Onassis

If you wanted to divert a mighty river into a different course, and all you had was a single pebble, you could do it, as long as you put the pebble in the right place to send the first trickle of water that way instead of this. — Philip Pullman

All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other conditions could produce it, and for the spreading of this condensed depravity and vice broadcast among the whole population. — Leo Tolstoy

These groups followed some solitary passer-by, hurrying his steps; one after another the doors were closed, one after — Alexandre Dumas

Tooting my own horn is of no interest to me ... it takes you away from real life. It's a waste, and I don't find a need to sing my own praises. — Paul Stanley

We are doomed to choose and every choice may entail irreparable loss. — Isaiah Berlin

Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests! — P.G. Wodehouse