Shrink Quotes

“Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them”
― Munia Khan

“Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“Don't shrink your standards, link yourself with those who think and ink like you.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“Have you noticed that the world shrinks when you travel?”
― Richie Norton

“I'm not paying to have my head shrunk. I'm so interesting they ought to pay me.”
― Ruth Harris, Decades

“The irony of seeking a shrink: they are successful in shrinking your brain but unfortunately they also make your wallet shrink.”
― Mico Monsalve

“Repression. Her therapist, Dr. Solomon, loved the word. He'd say it slowly, letting it roll off his tongue. Sometimes he'd add a chin stroke for good measure. He always looked pleased when he did this, like he'd discovered the Caramilk secret or something.”
― Jo Ann Yhard, Fossil Hunter of Sydney Mines

“I'm unable to tell you what it feels like to be "a little" mad. My emotions work as if controlled by a light switch. I'm either fine or I'm out of control. I once spilled a container of thumbtacks and got as angry at myself as I did when I screwed up my relationship with my high school sweetheart. If I'm under the impression that there are Golden Grahams in my cupboard, then realize that there in fact are none, there's a high probability I'll be as sad as I was at my grandfather's funeral.

In other words, my reactions aren't in proportion to the things I'm reacting to. It's something I've been working on with a very lovely shrink for the past few years.

But against the 4Skins one day, all that hard word went out the window.”
― Chris Gethard, A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure

“Driving on the freeway scared me for a long time. In fact, I was completely incapable of it. I'd take the smaller roads where, weirdly, I felt more comfortable. I talked a lot about it to the shrink because I didn't understand why I was so afraid, and also because it was a real handicap for work and life in general. And it's one of the few subjects about which he deigned to tell me his opinion... He told me that, if you really thought about it, a car had many points with a coffin... that accelerating to unnatural speeds on a road where you know nothing of the people piloting the other coffins made you think... and that, under these conditions, it seemed to him fairly legitimate to be afraid. Since the, I've not been afraid anymore. Psychoanalysis is funny...”
― Manu Larcenet, Ordinary Victories

“Being internally driven also feels different. Instead of feeling the weight of expectation coming down on us from the outside, we feel power flowing up from within. External pressure breaks us down, makes us shrink, and burdens us; internal drive builds us up, makes us grow, and energises us.”
― Ceri Evans, Perform Under Pressure: The international bestseller on how to change the way you think, feel and act from top psychiatrist and former soccer playe

“Our capabilities are never diminished by the fear that claims to shrink them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Dr. P said it was because she didn't think she deserved to be happy. That she didn't feel worthy, or some psychobabble crap....

God! She hated when her shrink was right.”
― Alex Kava, At the Stroke of Madness

“The mirror of our mind always shrinks our reflection.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough