32 Quotes by Stephen Grosz

He seemed never to have acquired a skill that we all need: the ability to make another person worry about us.

A lot of people, especially psychoanalysts, assume that happiness can only be found in a couple – but not all of us are made for a relationship.

The author Karen Blixen once said, ‘All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.’ But what if a person can’t tell a story about his sorrows? What if his story tells him?

Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand – when you’re loved, someone wants more of you.

When I’m in a couple, I feel I’m disappearing, dying – losing my mind.