“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.”
Judith Guest“People use people according to their own needs. Or don't use them. When a primary need is one of safety.”
Judith Guest, Ordinary People“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.”
Judith Guest, Ordinary People“Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.”
Judith Guest, Ordinary People“People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.”
Judith Guest, Ordinary People“To have a reason to get up in the morning it is necessary to possess a guiding principle. A belief of some kind. A bumper sticker if you will.”
Judith Guest“...it is love, imperfect and unordered, that keeps them apart, even as it holds them somehow together...”
Judith Guest“I keep telling you that feeling is not selective. You can't feel pain, you aren't gonna feel anything else either.”
Judith Guest“Depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling.”
Judith Guest“. . . 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.”
Judith Guest, Ordinary People