73 Quotes by Judith Guest

People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.

Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.

. . . crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture.

I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else either.

People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

He hangs on now, pressing his hand lightly against the wall, below the window, waiting for the familiar arrow of pain. Only there is none. An oddly pleasant swell of memory, a wave of warmth flooding over him, sliding back, slowly. It is a first

He had led off being a perfectionist when he discovered that not promptly kept appointments, not a house circumspectly clean. . . not anything cleared you through the terrifying office of chance; that it is chance and not perfection that rules the world.