...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself. - William Hazlitt
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. - Pearl S. Buck
And what's beyond vastness? It shrinks... - Jasleen Kaur Gumber
Depression thrives in secrecy but shrinks in empathy. - Seth Adam Smith
A mind stretched by a new ideanever shrinks back to its original proportions. ~ - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Roger said, 'I don't know about having a shrink around all the time. Are you analyzing me right now?'Sophie rolled her eyes. 'How original. No, I'm not analyzing you. It'd take a whole team of shrinks to figure out your crazy ass, and I simply don't have the time or energy. - Jennifer Lane
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free. - Jim Morrison
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry. - Thomas Paine
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination. - Eugène Ionesco
Ignorance shrinks minds; perception is the compass to knowledge. - Vasilios Karpos
Its the map of my childhood, my sadness, my Eden, my hell and home. when I look at it now, my heart swells with gratitude, then shrinks with disgust. - Otessa Moshfegh
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. - Anaïs Nin