Keith Ablow Quotes

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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?

Keith Ablow
For a psychiatrist to be any good, he has to be willing to corner you, close off the easy exits, even when it hurts. It's supposed to.

Keith Ablow
What about my rights? What about a person's privacy? Did all that just go to hell after 9/11?

Keith Ablow
Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them their self-esteem. When you're three or seven years old, it's less frightening to think of yourself as an unlovable, disappointing screwup than to recognize the fact that you're living with a monster.

Keith Ablow
The horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment.

Keith Ablow
Human empathy, while not found on any chart of human anatomy, is the reason we instinctively hurt for our children... it is the reason that one human being's intensely personal tests and triumphs can be harnessed to the good of countless others.

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

Keith Ablow