Keith Ablow Quotes

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• 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

  Mother, Children, Father

  Keith Ablow (2015). “Compulsion”, p.299, Pan Macmillan

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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.

  Keith Ablow

  Get Better, Trying, Okay

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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.

  Keith Ablow

  War, Sight, Addiction

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• Sometimes when you push someone, you find out who that person really is.

  Keith Ablow

  Sometimes, Persons

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• God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)

  Keith Ablow

  Pain, Dark, Like Love

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• There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)

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  Pain, Evil, World

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

  Keith Ablow

  Pain, Roots, Evil

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• If you take the teachings of Jesus, whether you consider yourself saved or you don't, those teachings are pristine. They're wonderful guides for life. And there's nothing in them that says hurt other people.

  Keith Ablow

  Jesus, Hurt, Teaching

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

  Keith Ablow

  Husband, Jealous, Ugly Things

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• The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

  Keith Ablow

  Truth Will Set You Free, Guilty

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• Relationships are never chance events.

  Keith Ablow

  Events, Chance

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• ...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. (20)

  Keith Ablow

  People, Warning, Facts

  Keith Russell Ablow, MD (2007). “Psychopath: A Novel”, p.13, St. Martin's Press

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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.

  Keith Ablow

  Drug, Tears, Different

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• 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

  Hurt, Children, Empathy

  Glenn Beck, Keith Ablow (2012). “The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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

  Keith Ablow

  Rights, Privacy, Hell

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• I think men should be able to veto women's abortions if they're willing to care for the child after it's born.

  Keith Ablow

  Children, Men, Thinking

  "Fox News expert shocks viewers as he says: 'Men should VETO women's abortions'" by Rebecca Pocklington, www.mirror.co.uk. May 6, 2015.

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• Because depression is so thematically powerful and so dark, when it's very severe, it can make people feel not only as if they've lost a loving connection, but as if the whole world is devoid of love. So if we wonder how somebody could take 149 people with him when he commits suicide, one answer can be that depression, when it's most severe, can make people feel that life is completely without value, not just for them but for anyone.

  Keith Ablow

  Love, Life, Suicide

  "Germanwings co-pilot’s past may hold keys to his actions". Interview with Nicole Kwan, www.foxnews.com. March 27, 2015.

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

  Keith Ablow

  Self, Sometimes, Produce

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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.

  Keith Ablow

  People, Evil, World

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• ...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)

  Keith Ablow

  Hurt, People, Giving

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• People blush when one of their core truths is revealed.

  Keith Ablow

  People, Truth Is, Core

  Keith Russell Ablow, MD (2007). “Psychopath: A Novel”, p.70, St. Martin's Press

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• Deep down, everyone wants the truth.

  Keith Ablow

  Want, Deep Down

  Keith Russell Ablow, MD (2005). “Murder Suicide: A Novel”, p.303, St. Martin's Press

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• When people can do something simple to avoid conflict--say, hit a button or unlock a latch--they'll generally do it.

  Keith Ablow

  Simple, People, Buttons

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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.

  Keith Ablow

  Track, Guy, Levels

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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.

  Keith Ablow

  Real, Guy, Finding Yourself

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