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psychoanalysis is an account of how and why modern people are so frightened of each other. What — Adam Phillips

We need, in other words, to know something about what we don't get, and about the importance of not getting it. — Adam Phillips

And reality matters because it is the only thing that can satisfy us. — Adam Phillips

Unkindness involves a failure of the imagination so acute that it threatens not just our happiness but our sanity. Caring — Adam Phillips

Transgression is a quest for solitude — Adam Phillips

We make ourselves out of the demands others make of us, and out of whatever else we can use. — Adam Phillips

Falling in love, finding your passion, are attempts to locate, to picture, to represent what you unconsciously feel frustrated about, and by. — Adam Phillips

The past influences everything and dictates nothing. — Adam Phillips

I am always true to myself, that is the problem. Who else could I be true to? — Adam Phillips

Two's company, three's a couple. — Adam Phillips

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical. — Adam Phillips

There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage — Adam Phillips

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep. — Wendell Phillips

Everything depends on what we would rather do than change. — Adam Phillips

When God is dead, kindness is permitted. When God is dead, kindness is all that people have. — Adam Phillips

Satisfaction is no more the solution to frustration than certainty is the solution to skepticism. — Adam Phillips

Anger, then, is only for the engaged; for those with projects that matter. — Adam Phillips

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true. — Adam Phillips

Monogamy is a way of getting the versions of ourselves down to the minimum. — Adam Phillips

The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access — Adam Phillips

Kindness consistently preoccupies us, and yet most of us are unable to live a life guided by it. — Adam Phillips

The only satisfactions available are the satisfactions of reality, which are themselves frustrating. — Adam Phillips

The people we fall in love with we find singularly captivating, as are any of the people (or ideas) that inspire us, for better or for worse. — Adam Phillips

We don't have relationships to get our needs met, we have relationships to discover what our needs might be. — Adam Phillips

You write to find out what you believe. — Adam Phillips

Wanting is what we do to survive, and we want only what isn't there — Adam Phillips

Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders. — Adam Phillips

Loneliness is the inevitable cost of looking after ourselves. — Adam Phillips

Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves. — Adam Phillips

We can only be really realistic after we have tried our optimism out. — Adam Phillips

In our dreams we can have our eggs cooked exactly how we want them, but we can't eat them. — Adam Phillips

There is always a ..belief that by destroying the thing that we love we destroy our needs — Adam Phillips

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to. — Adam Phillips

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood. — Adam Phillips