Quotes by Keith Ablow

About Keith Ablow:

Keith Russell Ablow is an American psychiatrist, author and television personality. He is also a contributor on psychiatry for Fox News Channel.
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My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.

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

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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.

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Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

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Ames clucked his tongue, “You know, not all of us are so evil minded. You’ve just met the wrong ones.” He meant guys. “You’re all the same.” I should know. “Not all of us,” he said too soft but I heard. “But judgment before proven c...

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I understand that you want “normal” by what you define it, but normal is what you make it. You could spend a lifetime in the house you grew up in and never once feel normal.

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Patience will be on our side.” “I once heard that patience is a vulture in wait to take out its prey when all seems safe.

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Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.

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But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.

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People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.

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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.

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I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.

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God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.

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

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The good guys had to operate on a higher level than the killers--just for society to keep track of who was who.

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Watching her, he saw again how she teetered between adolescence and adulthood, with a raw sensuality that had to deposit her in a kind of no-man's land--too much a woman for boys her own age, too young for fully adult men.

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What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?

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A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

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

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameKeith Ablow
  • DescriptionAmerican psychiatrist, author, and television personality
  • AliasesKeith Russell Ablow
  • BornNovember 23, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Psychiatrist; Novelist; Medical Writer