Stephen Grosz Quotes

• It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.

  Stephen Grosz

  Betrayed, Forgotten, Painful

  Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.83, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

  Stephen Grosz

  Grief, Closure, False Hope

  Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.210, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness - the feeling that someone is trying to think about us - something we want more than praise?

  Stephen Grosz

  Children, Hard Work, Thinking

  Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us-we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don’t understand.

  Stephen Grosz

  Dream, Acting, Stories

  Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Psychoanalysts are fond of pointing out that the past is alive in the present. But the future is alive in the present too. The future is not some place we’re going to, but an idea in our mind now. It is something we’re creating, that in turn creates us. The future is a fantasy that shapes our present.

  Stephen Grosz

  Past, Ideas, Creating

  Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.157, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I want to change, but not if it means changing.

  Stephen Grosz

  Mean, Want, Ifs

  Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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