Quotes by : Adam Phillips

All love stories are frustration stories… To fall in love is to be reminded of a frustration that you....

If you want to be with somebody who gets you, you prefer collusion to desire, safety to excitement (sometimes....

However much you have been wanting and hoping and dreaming of meeting the person of your dreams, it is....

In Freud’s story our possibilities for satisfaction depend upon our capacity for frustration; if we....

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

It is unrealistic to assume that if all goes well in a child's life, he or she will be happy. Happiness....

All love stories are frustration stories. As are all stories about parents and children, which are also....

Just as there are phantom limbs there are phantom histories, histories that are severed and discarded,....

The pleasure of kindness is that it connects us with others; but the terror of kindness is that it makes....

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