6 Quotes & Sayings By Franz Wright

Franz W. (pronounced "Vonz") Wright, Ph.D., is an internationally known and respected author and lecturer on psychoanalysis and the philosophy of the mind. He has authored more than twenty books, including The Philosophical Foundations of Psychoanalysis; Psychoanalysis: The Science of Understanding; Understanding the Human Psyche; and Understanding Human Behavior. He is also the author of many articles in professional journals, book chapters, op-ed pieces, speeches, interviews, and several popular books on psychology Read more

Dr. Wright has taught at Cornell University, Yale University, Hamilton College, The University of Michigan, Wayne State University, The University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, and Howard University Medical Center.

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I basked in you; I loved you, helplessly, with a boundless tongue-tied love. And death doesn't prevent me from loving you. Besides, in my opinion you aren't dead.( I know dead people, and you are not dead.) Franz Wright
And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't...
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And let me ask you this: the dead, where aren't they? Franz Wright
Literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry.
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Literature will lose, sunlight will win, don't worry. Franz Wright
This is no occupation for an adult who can look...
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This is no occupation for an adult who can look other adults in the eye, carry his own weight, and count himself one of them. Franz Wright
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If only I could tell someone. The humiliation I go throughwhen I think of my pastcan only be described as grace. We are created by being destroyed. Franz Wright