40 Quotes by Keith Ablow

We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.

The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children… it is the reason that one human being’s intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.'That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn't get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that's okay.

The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

Nothing overdone, nothing racy, which made her all the more alluring.