Henry Cejudo Quotes

For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, if you walk into that room of your memories, what will happen? Will it destroy you or will it make you stronger?

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

I finally got the dad I always wanted and then he left. At 18, 19 years old, I was really upset and had to work through that.

I feel like when I was an adolescent, and felt so unworthy of love and so empty, I moved outside of myself.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

Not having a father always made you feel that perhaps you weren't quite the same as other people. You felt you weren't complete.

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever.

I was always depressed growing up. There wasn't a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.

My dad was depressed a lot of the time, and there were a lot of things in his life that he never resolved.

My father was gone when I was three years old.

If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

I'm not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

I look at something like 'Short Term 12,' and that character has a lot of pain, and I wouldn't have known how to portray that if I hadn't experienced pain myself.

I didn't grow up with my father in my life, and that bred a resentment in me, and it bred a mentality in me that made me very angry.

My father passed away when I was pretty young. I was 7 years old, and I think when that happens, there are a variety of ways that a young person can react to that loss. I think, for me, it kind of put me in a perpetual state of feeling like something is wrong with me and like I didn't belong, or everybody else had things that I didn't have.

I grew up not really having a father figure, and it didn't bother me, because he wasn't there in the first place. But then he started other families, and I was jealous. It was like he was happy without our family.