Karen Salmansohn Quotes

I think that all the anger and cynicism comes from suppressing things that we always wanted.

My whole life, people have been saying, Why are you so angry?

I started writing because there's an absence of things I was familiar with or that I dreamed about. One of my senses of anger is related to this vacancy - a yearning I had as a teenager... and when I get ready to write, I think I'm trying to fill that.

Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically.

There aren't very many good models of feminine rage - and the ones that we remember are ones where women take that anger internally and implode themselves in a real way, like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary.

I never got hugged as child.

Aamir once went behind a rock to cry because his director didn't listen to what he was saying.

To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.

I can't get no satisfaction.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

No operatic star has yet died soon enough for me.

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

In my child's-eye view, whenever I was exposed to pain, it meant that my mother had let me down.

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

We fall in love more deeply when we're unhappy.

I think it's not inaccurate to say that I had a perfectly happy childhood during which I was very unhappy.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

My father had a real short fuse. He had a tough life - had to support his mother and brother at a very young age when his dad's farm collapsed. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one. My father was full of terrifying anger.

If you don't have an outlet, you become a criminal - or misanthropic.

Parents become very good at not hearing the explicit words and listening instead to what the child means but doesn't yet know how to say: 'I'm lonely, in pain, frightened' - distress which then unfairly comes out as an attack on the safest, kindest, most reliable thing in the child's world: the parent.