Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)
American journalist and author.
When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right.
Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.
With men, as with women, the main struggle is between vanity and comfort; but with men, comfort often wins.
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.
How strange that the young should always think the world is against them when in fact that is the only time it is for them.
Most sermons sound to me like commercials — but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.
The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.
Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.
The fault no child ever loses is the one he was most punished for.
Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those changes that would make all the difference.