Quotes About Unresolved

By the time I reached 50, I'd accumulated many unresolved fears and desires.

Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.

Though race-related issues continue to occupy a significant portion of our political discussion, and though there remain many unresolved racial issues in this nation, we, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about things racial.

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

When you're allowed to tell stories with ambiguity and darkness and things that are still unresolved, that's the dream scenario as opposed to having to fit into a more procedural mode or something a little more conventional. That's not what's working on TV right now.

Without comprehending the role of identity, many issues we all face will remain unresolved.

Mrs Pringle's aspect was that of one who had had bad news round about the year 1900 and never really got over it.

apparently there are some holes in it. It's like an incomplete deck of cards –

Literature has to remain frustrating — to withhold something, remain incomplete — or it's not literature anymore, but rather entertainment, edification or interpretation. That's literature's USP: staying unresolved, keeping its most vital messages unspoken, creating a zone of noise where everything and nothing is said at the same time.

Our dialogue about race is complex, unresolved, and will probably be endless; a thing to be enacted forever on our shaky, shattered, and traumatized national ground. It requires of us a belief in the willingness of others, and a trust that even our misunderstandings will not be intentionally misunderstood.

You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.

I thought for a moment Dad was finally going to say something that would make a difference. But maybe not, because he just let Weird change the subject without even noticing how unfinished I still felt.

I think to myself, How would things be for me if my dad was still alive? Would we get along? Would we argue? You know, we never got to the falling-out stage with each other.

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

When parents don't take responsibility for their own unfinished business, they miss an opportunity not only to become better parents but also to continue their own development. People who remain in the dark about the origins of their behaviors and intense emotional responses are unaware of their unresolved issues and the parental ambivalence they create.

Children are particularly vulnerable to becoming the targets of the projection of our nonconscious emotions and unresolved issues.

I now see, was the fact that there were so many areas of my emotional life where I was muddled and unresolved and therefore ripe for horrendous embarrassment that I was pointlessly guarded about everything. The lurking fear that I might accidentally give away something I did not want to reveal resulted in blanket self-censorship.

It was hard for me to walk away. But even harder when you didn't even bother to try and stop me.

I think when people are repressing things, or burying things, that can manifest in all sorts of ways.

Anything done to excess can become a means to numb the pain of our unresolved past.

We ignore each other and try to pretend the other person doesn't exist, but deep down we know it wasn't supposed to end like this.

I hate how we never got our chance to see what we could of been. I hate how I know I'm not over you and how I pretend to be. I hate how you totally moved on and you have no idea that I haven't.

Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.