59 Quotes by Adam Phillips

The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum.

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

So there is something perhaps more difficult to conceive of, sometimes born of resignation and sometimes not- a life in which not getting it is the point and not the problem; in which the project is to learn how not to ride the bicycle, how not to understand the poem. Or to put it the other way round, this would be a life in which getting it – the will to get it, the ambition to get it – was the problem; in which wanting to be an accomplice didn’t take precedence over making up one’s mind.

Two's company, three's a couple.

United Nations is an organization of global neighbors. I really wanted to be here to raise our voices together to our leaders to do more for our brothers and sisters who are poor.

Transgression is a quest for solitude

I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to?