533 Quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.